Links I’d share in private #32

Plot Twist: My 3-Week Break Became 3 Months

Seriously, what a summer ending and fall beginning in my life! At the beginning of June, I decided to take a break of a few weeks for my Links I’d share in private series, but what was supposed to be 2-3 weeks ended up lasting 3 months… Self-questioning, then lack of motivation, fatigue, job loss, then the job search, then losing one of my cats, then starting a new job that requires me to commute to the office… Pheeeeewwwww! I’m exhausted just reading myself! LOL

But yeah, on a better note, it’s going better these days. Working again in a job that is quite motivating and exciting; busy with the Hackfest coming in a week (gaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!); having put on standby my university classes (will start again after Hackfest); feeling the weather tiring my body down… It took me a while, but I managed to draft my latest post for my series with tons of new links and interesting findings I had in the last three months! I hope you all enjoy this 🙂

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

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 🤣).

Keywords: This week’s Links I’d share in private touches on various topics, including: digital garden, web development 2025, vanilla HTML CSS JavaScript, burnout recovery, OSINT techniques, AI criticism, tradwife movement, web design patterns, cybersecurity privacy, content curation, pure HTML coding, responsive web design, UI/UX annoyances, digital minimalism, social media detox, generative AI critique, vibe coding, SVG animation, background patterns CSS, indie web

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TO READ

• Pirates of the Ayahuasca: That shaman stole my personality: that story was funny to read, and gave an honest testimony on this bros’ trip on ayahuasca
• 366 weird movies: if, like my friends, you love weird movies, you’ll love this website
• Minimum Viable Humans: As evil as you may think this is, AI isn’t driving these layoffs—it’s simply providing a new mechanism and narrative justification for long-standing corporate behaviors. The tech industry has always operated on boom-bust hiring cycles. We saw it after the dot-com bubble, after 2008, and we’re seeing it again following the pandemic hiring spree.
• The Runaway Tradwives of TikTok: the return of the pendulum is here: this tradwife fad is now seeing its runaways. Women are realizing what a prison it is for their life, and how some are trying to escape this patriarchical custom
• Wish You Were Here: this tale about longing lost friendships made me nostalgic of my youth
• Ensloppification: i tend to this like this author, where AI is a huge slop that makes everything drab and shitty
• I’m not lazy. I’m just done performing.: ohhhhhh how I know this feeling too well! After my last burnout in 2023, I came to realize that it wasn’t worth runnnig around like crazy doing 1000 things
• An Obituary for Reading the Internet: When I miss the internet of the 2010s, it’s not just because I miss an internet less magnetized by Trump, although I certainly do miss that. I miss the internet that wanted to be read, not scrolled, and created tools accordingly.
• What half a decade of no phone notifications has taught me: I’ve deactivated all my notifications to my social medias apps for at least 5 years, and it’s been heaven! Right now, only my email and sms apps have notifications, the rest is pretty much on muted/deleted notifications.
• One Quick Look as Each of ’em Leaves You: a beautiful ode to the soon-to-be empty nest
• This is fascism: Fascism starts with talk, not tanks. With democratic elections, not a coup. And it takes hold thanks to people who think things won’t move quickly—until they do just that.
• Survival of the Greediest: How unchecked greed and wealth worship are devouring the world — and us with it
• You Are Not Behind: 10 Lies That Make You Feel That Way
• Digital gardens vs blogging: What’s the difference? Because yes, there is a difference in how you ‘cultivate’ your online presence on your website. And I love the metaphor of gardening.
• Sorry, You Don’t Get to Die on That “Vibe Coding” Hill: “People are vibe coding for the simple reason they are reaching for generative AI tools and they trust them to be useful to them in some way they can’t be useful to themselves. That’s it. That’s all it has ever been or will ever be.”
• This website is for humans
• Status, class, and the crisis of expertise: By celebrating “common sense” over expert authority, populism performs a dramatic status inversion. It gifts uneducated voters the power of knowledge and deflates those who look down on them.
• Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real: memorize this word: Hypernormalization.

TO SEE

• How brands manipulate you into buying more: Ironic, from a person working in digital communication and web marketing, to share this video, but yeah…it’s all about making you buy their products. Duh!

TO FOLLOW

• houseappreciation: an Instagram account presenting everyday houses that have style

• another home Instagram account, Micro Homes Design

TO HEAR

• this wonderful Jazzy playlist on MixCloud is fantastic for a rainy afternoon

• A upbeat, chill electro mix playlist, Mix of the Week #593: Sorcerer – Mystery Tripper Mixx

• Another Mixcloud playlist, this one with tons of beat, reggae, roots reggae, ska: Geronimo! Cassius Beat Them Down Double Barrel

• And the last playlist of the post, Mix of the Week #589: Hiatt DB – Chrome Lover

RECIPES

• Olive Oil–Braised Chickpeas
• Two-Colour Cream of Roasted Bell Pepper Soup

CYBERSECURITY & INFOSEC

• How to Disappear: Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants, who, for the right fee, will make you and your personal information very hard to find: fascinating story on the lives of those in the privacy business, disappearing from online tech.
• The OSINT Intelligence Cycle Part 1: Planning and Direction: interesting series of blog post on OSINT logic & tactics to read
• Meta accessed women’s health data from Flo app without consent, says court: because women haven’t said it for YEARS that those apps would leak info?

WEB & TECH

• Create an HTML dialog when you click an image
• On Being Haunted By My Corporate Software Past: I’m lucky: as a web developer, my work is more ephemeral than a software developer. Most of my past work ain’t online anymore, or has been revamped, so I don’t have to squirm at the awful work we pushed online. But the author of this blog post captures the essences of it.
• Responsive video is (almost) easy now: Finally!!!!
• Why I’m Writing Pure HTML & CSS in 2025: I’m still on WP for this blog, but you bet your ass I spend more time coding in pure HTML and CSS and vanilla JavaScript these days! And I’m not alone.
• PatternCraft: Professional-grade background patterns and gradients. Easily copy the code and seamlessly integrate it into your projects.Crafted with modern CSS and Tailwind
• Top 10 UI Annoyances: ohhhhhh how many of these UI patterns pisses me off now even more as I am not a web developer anymore
• A lesson from history for Software Engineers, Product Owners and CEOs: “Just a reminder that using state of the art technology to release your shit as fast as possible out into the world is not a good idea. Especially when people handling that technology haven’t been properly trained on it.”
• An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths: really insightful info on SVG animation and creation
• Un-Sass’ing my CSS: I’ve been coding in a very vanilla way for the last year or two now, and it’s refreshing to see other folks follow the same path of reappropriating the code instead of frameworks.
• All the concerns that make you a boring developer: the more I read other developers’ experience with the work, the more I realize that I was not bad myself, and wasn’t alone in my thinkings about the craft of coding for websites and apps. It’s reassuring to know that I wasn’t alone to think like I did when I was trying to think of every aspect of the code.
• 8 Autumn-Inspired CSS & JavaScript Effects: some cute CSS & JS animation for you fall & halloween enthusiasts!
• Social Media & Ad Specs Cheat Sheet: ohhhhhhhh! As a social media manager and content creator, THIS is fucking useful!
• UIRoot: Everything about UI/UX. Discover and share tools and resources that supercharges your workflow