If it's humor, then I am definitely a target of ridicule, cause I read the stuff thinking: ha! He doesn't even know about Styles, Outlines and Sections.
New Yorker "humor" columns always seem to be more "humorous" than actually funny. You're lucky if you get a smirk from reading one of them.
A "Proficient in HTML" title might be more funny to the HN crowd.
Yeah The New Yorker always seems pretentious in away how the guy in the bar scene in Good Will Hunting is. Typically cater towards Ivy league educated trust fund crowd.
Well, I’m as far removed from a Ivy League education as one can be and I found this quite funny. But I’m also someone who uses Word since early 00s and can relate a lot to this text.
The running joke about the New Yorker is that you can replace any of their comic captions with "Christ, what an asshole" and they still work.
Honestly, "Christ, what an asshole" is funnier than anything they caption their comics with, so it's a helpful thing to know.