Grandstanding is commonplace in crypto. If you don't talk big and everyone else does, you sound like you lack confidence.

> Lambda school, which fortunately also collapsed was notorious for this.

This statement seems to be going unchallenged. It wouldn't surprise me, but if you check @BloomTech and @Austen on twitter, you can see they're still talking it up: https://twitter.com/BloomTech https://twitter.com/Austen

> Unless the BA members have future-reading abilities (which perhaps they have, who knows!), that narrative is hard to hold @showyourfaces.

I think it was similar but far more mundane. I think they got bad vibes from Wasmer.

Needs more ICO.

Tampering with devices you own is already a crime in some circumstances. I'm sure they can extend it to these.

Depends on what kind of hacking. 591 questions here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/alexa

PostgreSQL on RDS?

No, on EC2. I prefer direct control over the database and see no reason to pay more for an RDS instance.

If they'd used a minifier, most or all of this embarrassment could have been avoided.

I was pretty surprised, but maybe they were hoping for security by obscurity as it was buried a little in the sources. I don't think devs as a whole have really grasped a lot of the trade-offs/repercussions of moving so much logic to the client side.

Wouldn't decompiled/disassembled wasm code be about as readable as unminified JavaScript?

Not if there was a proper optimization pass while compiling.

WordPress is something that would exist in another form if not for Matt Mullenweg. There have been plenty of competing projects. Thanks to good timing WP became the one that a lot of different people contributed to, turning a small project into an 800 pound gorilla. Despite this, Matt Mullenweg and Automattic has used the copyright and trademark to assert and maintain control over it. Some agree with the leadership, some do not, but many website developers are pretty much stuck with it.

https://red-sweater.com/blog/825/getting-pretty-lonely

He owns Washington Post which has the "Democracy Dies in Darkness" tagline.

How deliciously ironic. You won't ever see criticism of Amazon there.

I would say this counts: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/birkenstock-...