Victor Loux — bookmarks

People develop attachments to places, they move, they develop attachments to new places, and to new people. If you think people have a right to do that, then the question is how to support it. If you don’t, then you need to ask yourself: what level of violence are you prepared to tolerate to keep people in their place?

Holmgren's coloured wool test for colour blindness, Europe, | Wellcome Collection

wellcomecollection.org/works/qb73n5gb

The patient had to match one piece of wool to the samples in the box in this colour blindness test. There are light and dark shades to confuse the patient. This helped detect problems. The numbers on the pieces of wool were codes. The doctor used them to determine what type colour blindness the patient had. Swedish physiologist Alarik Frithiof Holmgren (1831-1897) devised this test in 1874. He pursued his investigations following a railway accident in Sweden in 1876. The accident w...

Blue Oak Council

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Don’t people slack off when they work remotely? – Chelsea Troy

chelseatroy.com/2018/03/17/dont-people-slack-off-when-they-work-remotely/

``It's almost like they're trying to hide it": How User-Provided Image Descriptions Have Failed to Make Twitter Accessible

colegleason.com/static/papers/TwitterImageDescriptions_WebConf2019.pdf

Why do remote meetings suck so much? – Chelsea Troy

chelseatroy.com/2018/03/29/why-do-remote-meetings-suck-so-much/

Creatives do their best work when it's quiet

fastcompany.com/90273633/yet-another-way-open-offices-are-making-you-less-productive

Surprise! Many creatives say they need quiet to do their best work. So why aren’t employers giving it to them?

2FA on the command line

sendthemtomir.com/blog/cli-2-factor-authentication

Here's the CIA's "Phoenix Checklist" for thinking about problems / Boing Boing

boingboing.net/2019/02/28/heres-the-cias-phoenix-c.html

The "Phoenix Checklist" is a set of questions developed by the CIA to define and think about a problem, and how to develop a solution. THE PROBLEM Why is it necessary to solve the problem? What benefits will you receive by solving the problem? What is the unknown? What is it you don’t yet understand?…

Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories – Herb Caudill – Medium

medium.com/@herbcaudill/lessons-from-6-software-rewrite-stories-635e4c8f7c22

Almost two decades ago, Joel Spolsky excoriated Netscape for rewriting their codebase in his landmark essay Things You Should Never Do. He concluded that a functioning application should never, ever…

unDraw

undraw.co/

Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create.

LisaDziuba/Awesome-Design-Tools: The best design tools for everything.

github.com/LisaDziuba/Awesome-Design-Tools

noclip

noclip.website/

Model Viewer for random games

Using CSS Grid the right way | hey it's violet

vgpena.github.io/using-css-grid-the-right-way/

CSS Grid is fun to use but hard to learn. Here are three tips to help you understand and leverage the Grid spec.

The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America - The Verge

theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona

In a damning new report, Casey Newton gives an unprecedented look at the day-to-day lives of Facebook moderators in America. His interviews with twelve current and former employees of Cognizant in Arizona reveal a workplace perpetually teetering on the brink of chaos.