Links I’d share in private #29

Montreal Spring & Janette

Spring is blooming here, the leaves are unfurling, and I just can’t wait for summer and vacation time! I have a feeling it’s going to be a scorching Montreal summer – I’ll definitely be grateful for that kiddie pool in my backyard 😉

On another note, I ventured to the theater in April and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I truly miss attending theatrical productions – it’s an art form that brings me immense joy. I saw “Janette,” a biographical piece about Janette Bertrand, a celebrated Quebec woman who profoundly influenced our society through media in the late 20th century.

She recently celebrated her 100th birthday, sparking a wave of celebrations throughout our artistic community honoring her life and contributions. I’m discovering a woman who has maintained her curiosity throughout aging, remaining incredibly relevant in discussions on gender identity, equality, and diversity. J’espère vieillir comme elle – sharp-minded and witty, continuing to engage with the world around me.

Welcome to another edition of Links I’d share in private, a (bi-)weekly blog post about all the things and content I come across the Internet during my intense web binging, worthy of being shared to you all (instead of in all of my private group chats 🤣).

Now on with the Links I’d share in private part!

Keywords: This week’s Links I’d share in private touches on various topics, including: crisis communications for privileged men, AI coding impact, far-right politics in feminism, smartphone addictions, Silicon Valley influence, colorful artworks and photo contest, Middle Eastern Music, lots of music playlists, English gardens, OSINT tools, AI security & understandings, HTML Elements, web accessibility

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TO READ

• Crisis Communications 101: A Crash Course for Privileged Guys in Tech: the title says it all LOL
• The Cannae Problem: When you’ve become so big with your enterprise, that you can’t see your potential failures points… Success creates its own failure mechanisms. The very things that make you successful produce the blind spots that make you vulnerable.
• Comments were a mistake I rarily read comments on the Internet, and I agree with this author’s blog post on the subject
• The enshittification of tech jobs
• The Hidden Cost of AI Coding: It’s easy to talk about productivity gains, competitive advantages, and how AI will reshape our industry. We’ve had those conversations. What’s harder to discuss is what might be lost along the way – something intangible but vital to many of us who chose this profession not just for the paycheck, but because we genuinely love the craft of programming.
• 20 short rules for better days at work
• showing up Just show up. Even if you’re scared.
• Queer Hope on the Open Social Web on finding your queer communities outside of mainstream social medias
• Interview: Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France (Charlène Calderaro)
• Letter of Recommendation: Victorian Visits: ohhhh I like this concept! Let’s bring back taking long vacations at your friends houses!
• the eternal present: a very interesting piece on smartphone addiction, and social medias’ role in fostering political hopelessness, trying to push us to reclaim our attention and rebuild offline connections to counter the despair of our current present
• The Women Who Wanted to Leave Their Husbands Over Politics: we all know folks stuck in those types of relationships, where their partner has taken a turn for the alt-right/far-right politics…
• The group chats that changed America: Silicon Valley tech moguls & billionnaires are a fucking poison to our societies

TO SEE

• The art of New York-based artist Jordan Casteel is sooooo colourful! I love it 🙂 Follow their Instagram here

• The Smithsonian Magazine has a yearly photo contest? Count me in!

• Wonderful music video from Catbite, Tired of Talk

TO FOLLOW

• Interesting Instagram account to follow: skullsinchurches

Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.

Brian Jacques

TO HEAR

• This fantastic DJ set by Oppidan | Boiler Room SYSTEM: Bristol will make you dance on your sofa!

• An excellent funk playlist, Habibi Funk Mix 1-7, of Middle Eastern sounds and music that will make you groove on a chill weekend: Tunisian Disco, Lebanese Funk, Egyptian Jazz, etc.

• Another excellent group, SexTiles, just released their album Yes Please and it’s very electro-dancey, especially on the songs Push ups & Kids

• Excellent album of Molchat Doma, Belaya Polosa

RECIPES

• Cheddar-Roasted Broccoli: the only way to eat broccoli: with cheese!

DESIGN

• This Hampshire English Garden is so prettttyyyyyyyyy. So much green!

• Generative Font – This site showcases a collection of free-to-use, free-to-modify fonts that were generated by code as well as the scripts themselves.

CYBERSECURITY & INFOSEC

• Hacker Laws: Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful.
• Welcome to Hippie OSINT Toolkit: Ohhhhh, this has a beautiful interface! A collection of carefully selected OSINT tools for investigations and CTFs, all in one place.
• Yhis post on Linkedin by Aidan Raney has tons of multi-platforms social medias tools that can help you in your OSINT investigations
• How to Hack AI Agents and Applications: a very thorough article to understand how to hack AI agents and chatbots

WEB & TECH

• Hiding elements that require JavaScript without JavaScript
• Symbl – Discover a world of SVG icons, symbols, and design tools—curated for developers, designers, and creatives to elevate your projects with ease.
• Design Vault – a collection of designs and common user interface patterns useful for your projects
• Understanding the European Accessibility Act (EAA) – The European Accessibility Act (EAA) requires that products and services made available within the European Union (EU) are accessible. This article gives a good overview of what folks need to control on their web projects that have a reach in Europe.
• Cool native HTML elements you should already be using
• the html review: fascinating HTML-based articles with tons of artsy subjects, very creative