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As a retro hobbyist that sells worldwide I wrote about this mess weeks ago: https://sidecartridge.com/blog/2026/08/10/ppwr-eu-vs-small-c...

And I stopped selling to all eu countries except Germany and Spain.

Obviously, you have never dealt with Amazon as a merchant.

You still need to be compliant with PPWR, no matter you sell on Amazon, eBay, Aliexpress or the street corner.

> I felt like using Amazon Web Services for the first time in 2006!

Literally I say that manufacturing is like using AWS in 2006…

As the author of the blog post, it’s disappointing to hear that you didn’t enjoy it. My article was never about claiming to be a hardware expert, but rather about sharing my personal experience as a newcomer for those interested.

What I find concerning is the unwelcoming attitude towards newcomers like myself, prevalent in some hardware and electronics communities. My critique in the article is directed at this exclusionary mindset. It’s important to remember that every expert started as a beginner, and a dismissive approach does not benefit the community. We all have unique contributions to make, and diminishing the experiences of newcomers isn’t constructive. Let’s focus on fostering a community where learning and growth are encouraged for everyone.

Classic distraction maneuver. This postmortem is a prime example of tech porn that diverts attention from the main issue: many at Cloudflare didn't do their job properly.

I think we are talking about different things: first you need to remove the blockers from HR when screening your CV. Certifications will help. Once you get the interviews you have to train yourself to pass the technical tests, and that’s a different story. If you want to get real technical expertise about a hot topic and have a good technical interview, I would start collaborating with an open source project that matters in the subject you want to shine. Regarding “production experience”, I can guarantee you that most developers in large organizations even with a DevOps philosophy they don’t really have production experience (because they are not allowed to interact directly with the environments). Also be honest with the seniority of the role you are going to apply. Production responsibilities are strongly linked to senior roles.

Your assumption is wrong, a large corp is not an organized crime corporation. To be a CxO of a large corp you just can’t be “people”. You have to be a person qualified way above the rest of us. If you can make millions in a different place not taking the risk of going to jail you won’t take a role in a risky corp. May be they are psychos, but not idiots.

Try to learn on your own about the topic and then obtain an entry level industry certification about it. They are easy and cheap, you should consider them as an investment. The hiring company will not check that kind of details with your previous ones.

This abuse will come to an end when a CxO goes to jail for a few years. Then things will be taken seriously.

No way. “Ñ” is not in the natural place for Spanish speaking people.

That’s what our “Teleinformatics” professors taught to us early in the 90’s at the university. OSI protocols were promising but adoption was not clear.

I worked for Microsoft back in 2018-2019 and I was in charge of choosing and sponsoring T3chFest. It was BY FAR the event with the highest engage metrics per euro invested. It was crystal clear that they were a NGO because they did not enforce contracts and deadlines like a professional event organization. But we understood it and tried to help them to cross the corporate hurdles to close the sponsorship deal. I don’t know what is happening, and I’m pretty sure this is peanuts for Couchbase. They should fix this mess just to avoid the impact in their reputation.

As a rule of thumb: the WHY in the PR, the WHAT in the commits.

It must be shocking to discover that part of your life was a lie. Not easy to digest, imho.

Whatever decision you make, be 100% sure first he is taking all the credit and using you as a “ghost coder”. Sometimes remote working environments make us think they are not taking in consideration our work. Try to skip a management level in an informal environment like a coffee machine and start a short pitch about “your project” with the boss of your boss.

Don’t get me wrong, I didn’t mean German technology is bad. Quite the opposite.

But trying to sell cloud infra technology in Europe saying “Made in Germany” simply it will not work. It sounds ridiculous, moreover when the parent company flagship brand (Lidl) means “low cost low quality for Eastern European immigrants”. It sounds so bizarre and out of context that I’m starting to hear about Lidl Cloud jokes around me.

Somebody should tell them “Made in Germany” may work for cars and capital goods, but not for tech.

Too late.

My guess is your email address is in a database of breached passwords and low-profile hackers are using this database to perform brute force attacks frequently triggering some kind of account banning to avoid performance impact on the platforms.

Try creating a new email and register again in the services you are banned and wait and see what happens.

Probably one of the best videos about subversion: https://youtu.be/GwDdJsdYM3g

Things have changed since the articule was published. The trend goes downwards:

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/amd/short-inte...

May be UK was not suitable for an Intel fab before Brexit, but what is relevant now is not even an option. Now think about any pan-European product or service and apply the same rule.

All these companies seem to have a different understanding of what business ethics are.

How does the tool work? With a list of forbidden ingredients?

The most shocking YouTube channel found last months is this one from one of these companies. They tried to produce a Reality Show showing their day in day out routines, but the broadcast networks rejected the project (they have obvious links with far right movements). Crazy stuff:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVAJkoGT9A4Fbm3Tmzb06DF3-...

I think it’s a sign of the times: the pandemic, the “everything is remote”… and of course the weak European ecosystem compared to the Americans’. Really happy for all the European founders that made it.

He did not disclose the company name (but easy to guess if you work on IT in Spain), so I don’t think he could have legal issues because of the post.

But, the cyber security professionals working in the consultancy firm can gather easily the small pieces of information left behind and sue him if they find out data extraction, for example.

Keep in mind that he claims he extracted sensitive data, but he could be lying just to be in the HN front page. Who knows.

Unethical, risky… and very stupid.

Two companies: his employer because of his lack of ethics and the consultancy firm. The CMS and the company are very well known in the Spanish technology scene and it’s not the first time I have read this kind of reports about their CMS. I will not disclose the name but easy for any Spaniard working in IT.

I don’t think HN should be a place for “company shaming”… unless the author contacted the company and they denied/rejected/threaten him instead of fixing the issues. I guess it did not happen.

I see HN as a place for collective learning. I don’t see what we can learn from this post.

A curious family tale: after the Spanish Civil War, my grandfather extracted gold and silver from broken devices like radios. Then he sold it in the black market to survive, and he briefly went to jail for smuggling. What a turn of life for a watchmaker.

We obtained them in late ‘00 for our tech company. We used them for several years, but the cloud was gaining momentum and we gave up using our own colo platform. We sold them in 2017, redistributing the benefits to the partners of the company as dividends. Fully compliant with the tax laws of my country, of course.