If you only use a phrase like "fucking bullshit" once across an entire blog post or book, you will find it has far greater impact on the reader. They will think "wow out of 400 pages of polite discourse, this is the one thing the author would really like to highlight as adverse".
Today, yes, but the site isn't new either.
> It doesn't make the content more interesting. It doesn't make the author seem any cooler.
I don't think the point was either of those things. It's meant to express outrage at the overcomplication of websites with the excessive use of javascript, the needing to download megabytes of JS to render some text, etc.
Here's the context from the original:
> You think your 13 megabyte parallax-ative home page is going to get you some fucking Awwward banner you can glue to the top corner of your site. You think your 40-pound jQuery file and 83 polyfills give IE7 a boner because it finally has box-shadow.
Being outraged at the state of the web has been lessening in popularity, I think. That's possibly because CSS has improved a lot and IE is finally obsolete.
I was wondering if I'm just getting old or if it's actually a bit tired. Perhaps a bit of both.
Feel the same way about the style.
This one isn't so bad in context. It is several down a chain of pages responding to each other that started with a sweary one. As well as each page adding more points (or arguing agaist previously stated ones) they have added a little extra profanity too.
On its own I'd agree with you assessment, but within the pattern if you have followed the story it fits less awkwardly.
I love that instead of this style we're getting a new generation of programmers who are genuinely nice, calm and friendly. People such as Bob Nystrom or Andreas Kling, who don't feel the need to curse every few lines.