[kungfooguru]

If you look at the rest of the posts on howistart.org you'll see that each mentions in some way the authors development environment of choice. This is on purpose, howistart is meant to be opinionated and show how the author works, not attempt to be generic.

[dxhdr]

I'll second this; there's a huge amount of value to be gained by reading opinionated pieces from experienced software developers. Many times it's just inspiration in the form of "huh that's cool, I wonder how I can integrate that feature/technique into my own workflow ..." I think that's also part of the appeal of watching other programmers livestream, though unfortunately there the signal to noise ratio is so much lower there than a well written article.