Have you ever worked on a development team? If you're not doing most of this, or some form of it, you're doing it wrong. Code that isn't consistent and well-tested is a waste of everyone else's time.

Article introducing useful tools and how to set them up = "Performance Art"?

Contrarian-for-the-sake-of-it and ultimately contentless comment = "Not Performance Art"?

Got it.

Not the most agreeable way of saying it, but 100% agree.

Why is it that every-time someone says something _everyone else should be thinking_, it gets downvoted to hell. I'm guessing it's because the way you said it, but something tells me the wiser, more experienced opinions such as yours just aren't flashy or trendy enough to get support in this modern, up-vote world.