I also love the humor and personality that authors are able to inject into their pieces

I miss Lewis Page. It's a rare day when I'm so downhearted that the memory of https://www.theregister.com/2008/12/30/german_beaver/ can't raise at least a wan smile.

I nearly missed that this article was written by Corey Quinn, guy who writes a lot about AWS

They never shirk from calling anything a spade.