Comment by bwfan123

There was also a mini bubble around social media aggregators and RSS feeds culminating in sites like gada.be

I see the dynamic as follows (be warned, cynical take)

1) there are the youth who are seeking approval from the community - look I have arrived - like the person building the steaming pile of browser code recently.

2) there are the veterans of a previous era who want to stay relevant in the new tech and show they still got mojo (gastown etc)

In both cases, the attitude is not one of careful deep engineering, craftsmanship or attention to the art, instead it reflects attention mongering.