That's what I thought at first but as I kept going I ended up enjoying it more and more as it was so blatant at poking fun at terrible hacker/script kiddie tropes.

I will mention that with the number of footnotes Marco Arment's little in-place footnote pop-up script he uses on his blog and Ben Thompson uses on Stratechery would have been appriciated. I forgot how useful that was compared to 'true' footnotes on long articles with lots of them.