It is junk. His next article is comparing a typewriter with a modern laptop computer and yelling into the sky about being nagged and maintenance.
I am disappointed in this being linked to by daringfireball.
So the user is faced with some over engineered “experience” which is an absolutely awful user experience for AN ESSAY or a janky static faux “plain text” version complete with janky ascii renditions. But it isn’t plain text because it heavily styled html content.
Removing animation would mean a traditional static vertically scrolling page while maintaining high quality images, not “okay let’s make this as sucky for you as possible”.