Yup, he's for real
I've been told that computer people have trouble discerning sarcasm, and there are times when I have that problem. But this posting from February has to be a masterpiece of sarcasm.
Consider it this way. If the poster had bolded just those same sections that you did, wouldn't that have given it away to just everybody? And been deleted?
And the fact that the posting was in February, and it is now September, well, doesn't that make "tortoiselike development process" just stand out like a sore thumb? (or would it be some other finger?)