I like these ALOT. No best practices, or you should do this better. It is about making something you love and get the code to production. I look forward to more of these.
If you enjoy these blog posts, you might want to check out 'Masters of Doom' by David Kushner. It's about John Carmack & Romero and id Software's early years (The Johns' childhoods through to Quake 3). Like these blog posts, it's more of a story of the early id team and games than anything else.
