the lack of majuscules fuzzes the text recognition algorithms baked into your brain by decades of optimization, thus requiring somewhat more than ordinary cognitive effort to parse. also it's kinda "texty" and some people think it's pretentious i guess lol

I think it's that it's deliberately harder to read, as if the author is disrespecting their readers. It's hard to tell where sentences start and end, so your inner voice has trouble with the shapes of phrases. Every paragraph looks like it starts in the middle of a sentence, making you constantly think something is broken. When I'm reading something and notice mistakes or unconventional features, I have to slow down and spend more time looking out for obstacles so they don't trip me up.

Back on topic, gentle looks pretty neat, and may be what I need for a project. I just need an efficient way to make transcripts.

Since anyone who graduated 2nd grade must purposefully go out of their way to type in all lowercase, I always associate it with people who want to portray the sense that what they're telling you is really important, but they're so used to knowing and telling people really important stuff, they don't really care, and it's like nothing to them.

If you look like you care, that's not really cool of course. Passion is bad. If you look like you really don't care, that pretty much makes you extremely cool.

yeah i smoke cigarettes during recess and am speaking in a monotonous tone, so what

It is specific to this page, and I suspect it is intended for stylistic effect, since he is discussing speech-recognition software.

BTW, scroll left on the header graphic!

I have heard it said that when something is bothers you about another, it is time to look inwards, because almost always it points to a personal quality you judge yourself for, either because you don't like it in yourself, or because you don't give yourself the freedom to have it.