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> Really why some people believe that all the content of Internet must be attuned to their personal quirks?

I read the OP as constructive feedback not an attack. I also think that their advice is practically bog standard writing advice not a personality quirk.

I would also suggest that you might look in the mirror at your own comment when accusing someone of imposing their personality quirks on someone else.

Constructive feedback usually has a more inviting, accepting and helpful tone of voice. As opposed to the commenter you are referring to, which seemed dismissive and slightly rude to me, tbh.

Aside from the tone, the specific feedback was also a miss, imo. It was written from the standpoint of as if they were reading a marketing page, or a show hn post, which it is not. It is simply a blog post. An article. To me it provided a bunch of context and was kind of enjoyable.

When you have a marketing page or some kind of "check it out" post, there is a certain level of expectation that the reader can expect and it's even reasonable to complain when the given post does not get to the point. I agree with that.

This is not such a thing

I wonder where you got that impression from. For me as well, it's rather the overboard lecturing response that seemed like an invocation of "Trevors axiom".

By the way, what even defines "simply a blog post"? That's just a media format that doesn't say much about the content itself, does it? I do agree with the sentiment that it would have been good to know what the article is even going to be. Not even the paragraphs were very helpful in this regard. It does improve the reception of an article if it meets the intended audience.

In retrospect, this article is mostly about a basic compiler frontend language and how to bootstrap that into a fully-featured concatenative programming language. Which to me personally is a "hm, okay, interesting" kind of thing but I didn't read the article for this premise. I read it for the "new antisyntax language" and feel it was clickbaitish.

Inverted pyramid structure is a useful tool.

Sometimes it's inappropriate, and ultimately the author is the best judge of this.

If you view text composition as a UX problem, it will help you figure out when to use the tool and when not to.

Examples where it isn't used (clickbait headlines, recipe blogs with three pages of meandering before they get to the ingredients, SEO "optimised" youtube videos) are, IMO, examples of dark UX patterns more often than not. But your use-case may be valid.

(This comment written using an inverted pyramid structure).

For what it’s worth, I was also thinking this is a very wordy article. It has lots of asides, and seems to get distracted from the main point. It gets distracted enough that I have a hard time following it, which is not conducive to what any writer wants to achieve: telling some sort of story.

can't agree more; all arguments in this comment are also why I don't understand video and yt popularity at all. I can't do anything to quickly get a grasp of what's in a video, or whether it answers my question. Sometimes even if the question is a yes or no, this sequential format forces me to wait a few minutes to learn the answer. By that time, I'll forget why I wanted it in the first place.

In my experience, videos about how to cut wood or use tools are infinitely better than reading the equivalent text. Videos about writing software are infinitely worse than text. The difference is that wood and tools are 3D objects, software is text.

I'd say it depends on the software. If you are just writing code that manipulates text, I completely agree. If you're dealing with 3d rendering such as Blender or game engines, if you're dealing with audio like DAWs, etc that have components beyond the raw text, video can have value because just staring at the code or similar doesn't tell you what watching/hearing it in motion will.

> It doesn't. You will not be using this language. And even if you will, you'll get all the information from a documentation, not from this article. If your time is money you wasted your time reading the article.

Hard disagree, not always we read things which has a direct impact on what we do. Sometimes ideas in one area can spark solutions for other problems.

Imagine aerospace engineers never looking at birds, or military equipment not getting inspiration from chameleons.

> not always we read things which has a direct impact on what we do. Sometimes ideas in one area can spark solutions for other problems.

Of course, but this effect is unpredictable. You could get an idea while reading some fiction, because the plot sparked some chain reaction of associations in your brain. But if it will happens or not is not predictable on basis of an abstract of an article. GP clearly talks about something else.

> military equipment not getting inspiration from chameleons.

A good example. If your goal is to fight the enemies it will be counterproductive to seeks for black swans by finding and studying new life forms. But you can still do it in a "fishing mode", just looking for something that seems interesting.

Science is living on a government support exactly because it is unpredictable. It can sometimes discover electricity, but most of the efforts of scientists gives little to no useful knowledge. One cannot know a priori if their research will have a big impact or not.

The article is badly written if the author's intent is to communicate their ideas to other people.