They're busy building stuff without blogging about it. It's tough to assess a change in culture when your heuristics are limited by selection bias favoring loud

They're busy building stuff without blogging about it. It's tough to assess a change in culture when your heuristics are limited by selection bias favoring loud contributors over productive builders. That's not to say there aren't great hackers who blog; but there are certainly bloggers who are bad hackers, and by definition they're more immediately visible than great hackers who don't blog. I'm sure there is a term for this phenomenon, but usually you see it within corporate bureaucracies - the skills that take you to the top are not necessarily the skills that make you good at your job. You get promoted by getting noticed. And creating value is one way of getting noticed. But you don't need to get noticed to create value. Same goes for any builder culture. So take the opinions of the bloggers with a grain of salt. Eschew the RSS feed for the GitHub commit log. Read the source code, not the blogs. There you'll see that hacker culture is alive and well. Indeed, it's thriving.