I love the author's style. Not every blog need do it, but I appreciate that fasterthanli.me does it.

To me, it is intellectually honest: this shows a reader every step along the way, every painful trail that must be overcome from point A to point B. Nothing is omitted. And I think the sooner we all did this, as an industry, the sooner the very many problems and bugs that exist (that get hit before we can even "get to the point", as you say) would get dragged into the light, and maybe we'd progress, as a society, towards having computers that weren't shit.