You could, but you'd have to browse that, rather than getting notified in a feed you already monitor when new things are posted on sources you are interested in.
This is a nice idea, and I am glad he includes the "precommitments are even better with a friend" section: An app is something you can always turn off. Betraying a pact you've made with another person is another thing entirely.
Unless you were using structures directly from said code, probably not?
Compare if you had only learned writing from, say, the Bible. You would probably write in a very Biblical manner, but would you write the Psalms exactly? Most likely not.