Victor Loux Bookmarks

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Preferring throwaway code over design docs

softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/12/14/throwaway-prs-not-design-docs
If you have discipline to throw away your first idea, draft, throwaway PRs often drives more progress than a design doc.

Falling asleep at the wheel: Human/AI collaboration in a field experiment on HR recruiters

almendron.com/tribuna/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/falling-asleep-at-the-whee.pdf
" Overall, the results show that maximizing human/AI performance may require lower quality AI, depending on the effort, learning, and skillset of the humans involved."

Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter • Josh W. Comeau

joshwcomeau.com/css/backdrop-filter/
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.

What the Murder of the UnitedHealthcare C.E.O. Means to America | The New Yorker

newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-the-murder-of-the-unitedhealthcare-ceo-brian-thompson-means-to-america
If one were to, hypothetically, blow up an unoccupied private jet in protest of the fact that the wealthiest one per cent of the global population accounts for more carbon emissions than the poorest sixty-six per cent, this would be seen by many people—like Thompson’s murder, and unlike the tens of thousands of human deaths per year already caused by climate change—as a sign of profoundly alarming social decay.