The author of the tutorial is Ijeoma Nelson and it's a step-by-step guide to creating a personalized news feed application that texts daily headlines at the end of each day. The project uses Goutte web scraper and Twilio's Message Scheduling API. To create the project, one needs to have a basic understanding of PHP, PHP 7.4 or higher, Composer installed globally, a free or paid Twilio account, and a smartphone to test the app. The tutorial covers creating the project's root directory, setting up a Twilio messaging service, retrieving Twilio credentials, installing dependencies, creating the Goutte web scraper, and sending the news feed as a text message using Twilio's API. The code is written in PHP and uses the Goutte library for scraping and Twilio's SDKs for texting.