Victor Loux Bookmarks

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No, Absolutely Not | CSS-Tricks

css-tricks.com/no-absolutely-not/
I think the difference between a junior and senior front-end developer isn't in their understanding or familiarity with a particular tech stack,

The Language Agnostic, All-Purpose, Incredible, Makefile | Mindlessness

blog.mindlessness.life/makefile/2019/11/17/the-language-agnostic-all-purpose-incredible-makefile.html
I like to use Makefiles. I like to use Makefiles in Java. I like to use Makefiles in Erlang. I like to use Makefiles in Elixir. And most recently, I like to use Makefiles in Ruby. I think you, too, would like to use Makefiles in your environment, and the engineering community would benefit if more of us used Makefiles, in general.

Who Can Use

whocanuse.com/
Find out who can use your color combination

Scaling in the presence of errors—don’t ignore... — programming is terrible

programmingisterrible.com/post/188942142748/scaling-in-the-presence-of-errorsdont-ignore
Scaling in the presence of errors—don’t ignore them Building a reliable, robust service often means building something that can keep working when some parts fail. A website where not every feature is...

The Size of Space

neal.fun/size-of-space/
Explore the scale of the universe on this interactive page. Go from astronaut all the way to the observable universe!

Blot – A blogging platform with no interface

blot.im/
Turns a folder into a blog automatically. Use your favorite text-editor to write. Text and Markdown files, Word Documents, images, bookmarks and HTML in your folder become blog posts.

Line Awesome — Free Beautiful Icon Font

icons8.com/line-awesome
Replace Font Awesome with modern line icons with a single line of code.

UX Movement: User experience design articles

uxmovement.com/
Learn new and innovative best practices in user experience design that'll make your app, website, or user interface easier to use.

The Myths of Color Contrast Accessibility

uxmovement.com/buttons/the-myths-of-color-contrast-accessibility/
There's a growing demand for designers to make their interfaces accessible to all users. It's important to accommodate users with disabilities...

Email-Newsletter Start-ups and The Future of Media - The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/10/substack-revue-email-newsletter-startups-tinyletter/599557/
"writers—particularly female writers— said, O.K., I’m going to make an Internet on which my essays go out in pneumatic tubes to just who I want them to go to, and no one else.".