You might not know that the defacto standard with editors and the new hot thing at the time that thing was written is WYSIWYG. So yes this was indeed the joke.

Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.

Apparently the guy now works at the federal crime office (bka) in Germany now😂😂

His description is “we all have our segfaults”

Not accurate. In this case u don’t need the faces for the clock to work fine. In the apps that isn’t the case.