>If you're a web hipster, and you're already using Twitter's Bootstrap like a whore, you're gonna love this.
What the fuck is this?
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It's a joke.
Tongue in cheek, self referential and self deprecating with a dash of realism.
Made me chuckle.
It's affectation that serves no purpose for the library other than to make me think the author has some issues.
He has issues because you don't get his sense of humor? You're out of order with that one.
It strikes me as an attempt at attention-getting, which in my experience often comes from insecurity. I'm not saying this is the case with this guy, but there's just no need for it.
So yes, I think he has some issues due to this particular expression of his sense of humor. It's not like I'm scared away by the language used - it was more cringe-inducing than anything.
It is self-deprecating (as another commenter said), but what might not be obvious is why there is a need for some defensive self-deprecation.
In some web development circles Bootstrap has become a divisive topic. Statements like "You have no business being a programmer if you use Bootstrap", "Bootstrap is ruining the web" and "You shouldn't use web design and Bootstrap in the same sentence" are fairly common.
In that light, the 'web hipster...' statement is more a means of fending off criticism than anything else.
I figured Hacker News and Github were full of intelligent people, but I may be wrong.
A web hipster has no definition. But you could put two and two together to realize, a web hipster uses Bootstrap because it's the most popular front-end framework. And anyone who uses it "like a whore", means you've gotten messy with its insides.