[ricksharp]

I love my overengineered web site / playground. Yes, I hid a text adventure in the site header. Yes, it is full of stuff that no-one will care about. It's my art and my passion.

I put all my cool code there and I over engineer it to death. It's awesome - it's fun - it's what you should do if you love coding. Guess what - I also have a table full of electronic projects, I've made unfinished games, I've done hackathons, it's great and we should embrace that.

Perhaps Kent Dobbs likes experimenting with new technology and trying new stuff. Perhaps his own personal web site is a place where he can do whatever he wants.

If you criticize him for that... well let's just say, I doubt your ability to code - and you are banned from my nerd club. If you don't take joy in an overengineered personal web site - then you are doing it wrong.

Seriously, speed runners spend months trying to save milliseconds on a mario speed run and you want to whine about a software engineer taking joy in his craft...

Ok, that's my rant.

I support freedom, I support the free web, I support the proliferation of code and over-engineered solutions.