Thanks for the kind words :) I do try hard to "keep the spirit" as much as I can. Like everyone on HN I need to balance that with many other things, but I figured out a few lines of Go + a heroku app wouldn't be too time-consuming :)
It's not.
The "author" simply stole towel.blinkenlights and wrapped it in golang. I bet he updated himself to senior go engineer on linkedin after this.
None of the "cool" stuff in this is martinraison's work.
Ludicrous on the surface yet brilliant.
Kudos to the creator, and itβs great that such a senior engineer with his track record and contributions still has that spirit in him.