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A similar rhetoric is actually present on the linked example page: https://blog.koley.in/baserock/

No, he links to one of those as well for good measure.

Ughn, I really thought that this rah-rah pseudo-masculine tough guy aesthetic was something we've collectively moved on from?

it's obvious satire and a lighthearted joke with a kernel of truth. chill :)

i still have not. "pseudo-masculine tough guy" aesthetic are efficient, especially for learning/reading space (80% of my time spent on the net). It does not have to be as ugly as "better fing website", but still.

It was funny the first time, but the gimmick was run straight into the ground with all the followup versions that tried to double down on the writing style.

Same will happen with this. Yesterday it was 55 bytes of CSS or whatever, today it's 339, pretty soon people will be creating "Responsive CSS in 69 lines LOL GEDDIT" and the cycle will begin anew.