I can pull doc strings in Vim by moving my cursor over a function and pressing K with fireplace.vim. I imagine Emacs has something similar. I get a list of functions with taglist.vim.
This may not answer your entire question, but in the first pages of the book preview on Amazon:
"He does not panhandle, and he often works--declining payment for his efforts."
Also:
"And although he lives in a cave, he is not a hermit: he is relentlessly social, remains close with friends and family, and engages in discussions with strangers via the website he maintains from the public library."
I'd also install fail2ban. I looked at the auth logs for my DigitalOcean VM, and it's amazing how many bots/people try to log into it, even though it doesn't contain anything necessarily valuable.