And yet you can't say why. I just should because its "Yegge."

It's fascinating to me the cargo-culting of this person on HN. It's funny that the even questioning this person on HN invites immediate ire and downvotes.

At one point I did go read a handful of articles and I found none of them remarkable. I just found them self-indulgent.

Of course I can say why, but you didn’t ask that question.

His posts are thoroughly entertaining and well written. They’re long, but true to the title of “blog rants”. You might end up disagreeing with some of his opinions but that’s ok.

And if you’ve read some, and they’re not for you, that’s ok. But no need to shit on other people for enjoying them and claiming we’re in some kind of cult.

At the time they were written, his blog was one of the best in my opinion.

So you do know who he is then?

You’re being downvoted since you are obviously trying to make a different point - that Yegge is overrated / overhyped / whatever - than what you led with, I.e. pretending to not know who he is and questioning why even mentioning him would be relevant.

I never pretended not to know who he was. I simply asked why it was relevant to mention him in this context.

Well that’s the appearance you gave by asking the question you did and saying there are only 3 posts from 10 years ago. But you know that.