While bit-loot.com =/= the coding level required for Dice.Ninja, it certainly proves he had some knowledge of coding.
This is from the Just-Dice chat logs:
+ Mon Jun 9 04:00:32 2014 (788073) I've still got a ton of HUC as well
Mon Jun 9 04:00:55 2014 (716561) wut. he lost 90% of his invesment
Mon Jun 9 04:01:00 2014 (134004) <@SJ> easily
Mon Jun 9 04:01:05 2014 (1470) *if* HUC gets a web based client that you don't have to download the blockchain... It could go to the moon
+ Mon Jun 9 04:01:13 2014 (788073) actually, I nearly finished a pretty nice opengl cross-platform huc client before blockchain syncing issues made it difficult to keep working on