I suppose Wired covered this because the general sentiment these days is that everyone needs to learn programming since it is pretty much the only way to be productive in the future.
Bingo. He's a slightly personable foil to the new rhetoric.
I enjoy stories counter to the current cultural sentiment, however I found this one to be very bland.
because they need pageviews to stay alive and someone over there figured, 'huh, i bet we can get this on the front page of hacker news'