[lmm]

Humble is not a word I'd use to describe this stunt. If _why and their readers are having fun then fair play to them, but this is putting more attention on the person and less on what they've done, whereas the truly humble would want the reverse.

[vidarh]

Part of the the issue for _why seems to be that he got extremely disillusioned about criticism of his code; criticism he took to heart (in this book he also very explicitly say "I wrote hideous code for years"). So putting more attention on a persona that is thoroughly his own creation, and away from his code, seems to me like he is dismissing the worth of his coding.

In fact, I find it quite sad to see how he refers to his code - I admire a lot of what he did. Sure, a lot of it was not great engineering, but it was artful. E.g. Camping is fantastic to read, both for itself and as a sort of practical demonstration of how bloated many frameworks are. It's not that most people would ever have a good reason to use Camping as their web framework, but that to me is besides the point.

That said, part of it this whole thing also does seem to be driven by (hurt) pride.

I hope he sticks with the writing, though - so far I'm halfway through the PDF, and I love it.

[doki_pen]

This is what he's done though. I think that he'd like to be more than a programmer.