[johnea]

All of this is really about web dev, not s/w dev in general.

npm and pip are curses on the planet.

One point right from the beginning of the article: Why would you EVER leave a public port open straight to phpMyAdmin?

This is what SSH tunneling is for...

[illusive4080]

Did you not run phpMyAdmin in the 90s/2000s? Nobody was that secure back then.

[johnea]

Yes, I did.

But I've always used SSH port forwarding to access everything except pages intended for public viewing...