I appreciated some of the author's points, but his presentation was egotistical. The pedantically phrased, autobiographical tweets didn't add much to each section. It would have been more humble and interesting to include quotes by other talented programmers.
I'd love to! As a starting point, I'd recommend John Resig, Jeff Atwood and Simon Peyton Jones. These are some of my favorite programmers who write about being developers. I think they do a wonderful job of describing the process and using metaphors to illustrate concepts.
There are hundreds of thousands of articles, books and sayings about code and being a programmer. When an author thinks beyond himself (and doesn't quote himself), he has exciting opportunities to draw from this pool of knowledge.
