I actually find this style of writing interesting and engaging. It makes a mundane topic like rate limiters, easy to understand (along with the topics related to it). Not everyone enjoys the same styles of writing, but if I’m learning something new, I want it to be engaging.

> if I’m learning something new

If I'm reading something to learn something new, I want to end up learning about it by the end of it or I hit the limit of time I have to spend on learning about it.

A couple more details:

- The device is a D-Link DIR-825 running openwrt 18.06.0 with a pair of ports bridged so it can be dropped into place w/o having to reconfigure anything on the network.

- Cake[0] is being used for rate limiting.

- If you only care about the details of the setup without all the prefatory text skip to https://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201808#openwrt

[0] https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/Cake/

Haha yea why'd that guy on vacation write with any sort of style... Everything should read like an RFC and look like notepad and we are robots that only consume information.

It's unnecessary if you're trying to write technical reference docs. That was not the goal of the author.

This style was more enjoyable to read and gave more insight into the author and their perspective. I appreciated it and read the whole thing.