Yes, I found that annoying. But it's not uncommon when reading stuff written by programmers who make extensive use of JavaScript. For whatever reason it seems to have attracted people who don't have much breadth or depth of programming experience yet at the same time like to make grand statements.

It's interesting that the author, who is speaking about things that were happening 20 years ago, graduated from college in 2008 (http://www.chris-granger.com/resume/) and thus 20 years ago he was likely a very small child.

This combination of lack of depth and yet grandeur is seen in other projects and is annoying because it means that one is forced to wade through a lot of noise to understand projects like nodejs, couchdb, etc. And it does the people who write like that a disservice. Rather then overselling their weak knowledge they should point out the cool stuff in what they are doing and let that speak for itself. It's counterproductive to pretend to be smarter than you are.