> tl;dr, Luke Smith is an internet microceleb who makes it a point to complain about modern life and being online, while being less online than he lets on. He is otherwise a typical right-of-center imageboard-adjacent entrepeneur taking crypto donations for projects, and those projects are polarizing because of their technical shortcomings and/or content, which may be seen as incongruent when his professed vs revealed preferences are taken into account.
Luke Smith, began his PhD. in Lingustics at the University of Arizona after earning his Master’s degree from the University of Georgia in 2015 [1]. Frustrated with academia and the tools at his disposal, he leveraged his linguistics background to produce a series of Unix shell scripts and wrappers around LaTeX, creating a set of dotfiles and environment setup sc