Comment by kragen

2 days ago

Not Dan Luu, is it? The site seems to leave that intentionally ambiguous.

Not Dan Luu. And to the other comment, not intentionally hiding my identity. Just that for most of my writing, who I am is irrelevant.

  • I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be named something like Madonna Tucci or Madonna Bianchi and be born in the late 60s, slowly coming to the realization, as you grew up, that your name would never be fully yours again; that, if you were to write a book or perform in a play as just "Madonna", half the audience would assume you were that damned blonde from New York.

Seems to be this[1] guy, which you can find out by skulking around an older snapshot of his website from the Wayback Machine, where he displayed his real name within the footer on every page, and went by a slightly different username up to seemingly as late as April this year. Maybe a rather poor attempt at dissociating his real identity from the website somehow? (on second thought, he still links to the webpage from his GitHub profile, so that wouldn't make much sense, I think. Hmm.)

[1]: https://github.com/luuhq