> Alas, the site that inspired me doesn’t seem to exist anymore, but basically, it was a grad student who was procrastinating as I do and had decided to write their thesis in groff.

I believe the site referenced was a blog post I wrote and submitted here in July. Unfortunately the post's popularity used up the free trial it was hosted on. The post can now be viewed here: https://yockyrr.gitlab.io/jstutter/ with original comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32202209