Also, he uses low-contrast grey text on a white background (might be better readable on a better screen, but on my shitty laptop it makes things harder to read than necessary) + the navigation links on top have no text at all on them (this might be intentional, due to his server having problems).

I, for one, like my advices best from people with at least basic skills in the area. Or from people who at least try to adopt the things they say/just learned/want to pass on.

In the author's defense, the advice is from a talk by Rian van der Merwe: http://speakerdeck.com/u/rianvdm/p/an-introduction-to-user-e...