Shay

I've been "shamed" so many times for not doing things properly in coding, using PHP and jQuery and SQLite in 2026 etc But it's all worked out fine for me and I've always made security a priority so never got hacked etc So for me the Garry Tan thing is like the "real" devs once again gatekeeping, out of fear non-coders are now entering their scene, even if they have a point (like exposing tests in front end sure okay) But look at ANY scene, like music too, and you always have the old people gatekeeping the new people And yes the new people suck and do things differently but at some point they won't suck and their way of doing becomes the new standard which I think it will be

Massive unsecured database from IDMerit (ID/age verification service). It exposed ~1 billion personal records across 26 countries: names, addresses, national IDs, DOBs, phones, emails. Digital ID is such a great idea 🤡