I really hope this article is a joke, but author forgot to add /sarcasm.
"Hell, look at me. Other than my affluent Orange County family, my Stanford bachelor’s degree, and the $10 million that my uncle invested as seed capital for my innovative advice column start-up, I have nothing but my ability to code."
Adding sarcasm tags here would be like adding ketchup to your hotdogs, comic sans to a summons, or promises to node.js core.