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The overly curse happy programmer speak is so very stale. I'm not offended or anything but it's just not that great. It doesn't make the content more interesting. It doesn't make the author seem any cooler. It's just meh. It reminds me of Epic Meal Time; a facade of coolness based on cursing, alcohol and over the top food.

I love that instead of this style we're getting a new generation of programmers who are genuinely nice, calm and friendly. People such as Bob Nystrom or Andreas Kling, who don't feel the need to curse every few lines.

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There is always a balance with these things. I try to be careful to use profanity as a tool rather than a literary crutch.

If you only use a phrase like "fucking bullshit" once across an entire blog post or book, you will find it has far greater impact on the reader. They will think "wow out of 400 pages of polite discourse, this is the one thing the author would really like to highlight as adverse".

Agreed, this is what I liked about the book “The Martian”. The protagonist only curses a couple times in the book and they really carry weight given the circumstances.

> The overly curse happy programmer speak is so very stale.

Today, yes, but the site isn't new either.

> It doesn't make the content more interesting. It doesn't make the author seem any cooler.

I don't think the point was either of those things. It's meant to express outrage at the overcomplication of websites with the excessive use of javascript, the needing to download megabytes of JS to render some text, etc.

Here's the context from the original:

> You think your 13 megabyte parallax-ative home page is going to get you some fucking Awwward banner you can glue to the top corner of your site. You think your 40-pound jQuery file and 83 polyfills give IE7 a boner because it finally has box-shadow.

Being outraged at the state of the web has been lessening in popularity, I think. That's possibly because CSS has improved a lot and IE is finally obsolete.

Glad to see others feel this way - I swear often enough myself but I find this type of writing very unattractive despite it being a joke. I had to stop reading.

I was wondering if I'm just getting old or if it's actually a bit tired. Perhaps a bit of both.

Fuck this^, seriously though, I don't think I've worked with a lot of programmers or frontend folks that cursed regularly but instead have been nice, calm and friendly. I don't think the point here was to make it more interesting or to make the author seem cooler. This is just a continuance of an existing joke.

Totally agree. I think most people stop thinking this vulgarity for the sake of itself type of humor is funny by the time they get to high school

Agreed. It's very over the top and just feels super cheesy and 'keyboard warrior'-ish.

It’s so dated. Like early 2000s edgy Maddox et al. I still swear a lot but this “style” is obnoxious

Reminded me of Zed Shaw.

Feel the same way about the style.

> The overly curse happy programmer speak is so very stale.

This one isn't so bad in context. It is several down a chain of pages responding to each other that started with a sweary one. As well as each page adding more points (or arguing agaist previously stated ones) they have added a little extra profanity too.

On its own I'd agree with you assessment, but within the pattern if you have followed the story it fits less awkwardly.

IMO the context makes this one worse. The first one was amusing. The second one was stale. This one is cringeworthy and played out.

Its called hyperbole. Also, this was inspired by https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/, so it make sense to follow the same format.

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