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To OP -- in the spirit of the article -- it's an uphill task to separate the content from the witticisms here. IMO it would have been a better read with fewer jokes.
To _you_, this person wrote https://www.stilldrinking.org/the-episode-part-1 (and 18 more parts, which I only put down because my body required sleep), https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks, and everything over at https://www.stilldrinking.org/essays.php.
((Who gets the reference?))
I'm not sure how that is relevant to this essay, which I found almost unreadable.
The guy is a writer, I think his goal was to entertain more than to inform.
I agree. I gave up and went straight to HN comments.