I guess I'll be that guy and say that I highly doubt the author has taken more than a cursory glance at more than half his list. He certainly hasn't had the deep epiphanies he's implying from each of them.
Seriously, he expects people to believe he's evaluated the code of the Linux kernel, the Chrome browser, Postgres, LLVM, Tensorflow (just to name a few, less than half of his list), deeply enough to be able to make statements like "finest codebase in [x, y category] that I've seen", while also being the CTO of a company?
Seriously, he expects people to believe he's evaluated the code of the Linux kernel, the Chrome browser, Postgres, LLVM, Tensorflow (just to name a few, less than half of his list), deeply enough to be able to make statements like "finest codebase in [x, y category] that I've seen", while also being the CTO of a company?