[lawgimenez]

Can't believe you don't know who the author is my man.

[datsci_est_2015]

Generally don’t pay attention to names unless it’s someone like Torvalds, Stroustrop, or Guido. Maybe this guy needs another decade of notoriety or something.

[lawgimenez]

So, only 3 old dudes. Is that it? What's wrong with looking up to new and upcoming developers.

[jedberg]

The author is the founder of Hasicorp. He created Vault and Terraform, among others.

[distances]

Different folks are interested in different niches. I don't know this author either. I would know many names from other subfields, though.

I once went to a meetup where the host introduced the speaker with "he needs no introduction". Well to this day I've no idea who the speaker was. Familiarity really shouldn't be assumed beyond a very, very small handful of people.