This is completely off subject, but as a personal rule of thumb, 99% of articles that include the first person, such as "Why I [did xyz]..." or "How we can...",

This is completely off subject, but as a personal rule of thumb, 99% of articles that include the first person, such as "Why I [did xyz]..." or "How we can...", are clickbait. Ime, the best case scenario is Acme Tech Co. "blogging" about "why we used abc codebase," but the reality is that it's simply rehashing well known information in narrative form for the purposes of PR, and worst case scenario is that it's just unoriginal op-ed garbage. See: "We should replace Facebook with personal websites," which is currently trending at #10 for HN, above this OP at #16. EFF is a great organization and can't say that it's surprising to see that this is the first time in a long time to come across an exception to the rule.