This is Jess’ personality - check out her Twitter account. I don’t mind it, but I’ve followed her for a while so I’m used to it. Honestly I find it to be a refreshing break from typical the typically stiff writing I see. She’s smart and doesn’t need to hide behind stodgy writing in order to make herself seem smarter.

I don't really mind it on twitter, as twitter is anything but serious, and you can't really have any coherent text there.

But such elements in a regular article simply harm its coherence and readability for anyone that does not spend much of their time in (rather noisy and immature, IMHO) communities which feature "meme image macros" heavily.

(Bonus negative points if some of the images are animated. That makes me think that the author actively hates the readers.)

Since I knew what LD_PRELOAD did then I was rather amused that the author had a similar epiphany over it as I did many years ago, which made it a great read -- something to relate to.

I agree that the article is emotional, but the annoyance or not is so very subjective.

And the intro going for about 1/3 of the total article before even knowing what we are talking about (yeah, I click on article when I’m intrigued by the title, when it seems programming related)