I really don't understand why this blog gets so much traction here. Ranting against rss scrapes, FUD about some atop vulnerability that turned out to be nothing, and thinking you have to pay for acme certs and caring about the way it's parsed?

Community favourite. Once you hit a critical mass with a community you will always be read by them.

Well, I will perhaps endure flak or downvotes for pointing a few things out, but Rachel:

- Is female [TIL the term "wogrammer"]

- Works for Facebook [formerly Rackspace and Google] so an undeniably Big MAMAA

- Has been blogging prolifically for at least 14 years [let's call it 40 years: she admin'd a BBS at age 12]

- Website is custom self-hosted; very old school and accessible; no ads or popup bullshit

- Probably has more CSE/SWE experience+talent in her little pinky finger than 80% of HN commenters

https://medium.com/wogrammer/rachel-kroll-7944eeb8c692

So I'd say that her position and experience command enough respect that we cannot judge her merely by peeking at a few trifling journal entries.