It reads like a coming-of-age story for a software developer, without the part that comes next; crushing humility as flaunted self-assumed ideals are obliterated by the need to deliver actual results that real people actually pay for.
This reminds me of a story I read in an Escher biography: Escher would receive letters from mathematicians, saying that his work exactly visualized this or that theory. Escher himself did not understand what they were talking about, as he was not into mathematics. He did of course enjoy that others got so much out of his work.
MC Escher had a big impact on me growing up. I remember being a kid and looking at some of those famous lithographs and thinking, "oh jeez wow, ok, that's pretty cool".
Equating yourself to a generational genius because you are "an author of a math-rich RDX data format and the `librdx` library" has to be one of the funniest things I've read in a while
I do feel it's a bit excessively "this is very deep." But I don't think he's equating himself to Escher; I think he's just saying that Escher's work is a good metaphor for the kinds of thoughts he's engaging in right now-- for a shallow pass of much the same purposes that Hofstadter used Escher and Bach.
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