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runspired.com is a personal blog at blog.runspired.com about web, programming and design. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on web development and browser support, including an article about developing only for Chrome. The comments mostly discuss Safari and ES6 without judging the blog's writing.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2016-03-26
What Hacker News says?
> IE executed a "developer preview" strategy leading up to IE9 6 years ago. I should know, I was a PM on that team. That (Safari adopting "developer previews" now) doesn't mean much regarding whether Safari is the new IE. When people say that phrase they don't mean their both trying (or having tried) developer previews. They mean whether Safari is as backwards and holding the web back as IE6 was for ages. Which is n…
Comment linking /2016/03/25/the-chrome-distortion-chrome-alters-our-expectations-in-highly-negative-ways/
on “Introducing Safari Technology Preview”Submitted The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations as a story · 306 points
HN discussionHappens all the time. Such a terrible thing. I love this article that was posted here a couple days ago: https://blog.runspired.com/2016/03/25/the-chrome-distortion-... Currently working on a project that only supports Chrome. Turns out it was only using a couple experimental APIs that were easily replaced by small libraries/polyfills. The Chrome blinders are real.
Comment linking /2016/03/25/the-chrome-distortion-chrome-alters-our-expectations-in-highly-negative-ways/
on “Canvas: Notes for teams of nerds”Submitted The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our expectations as a story · 23 points
HN discussion> Sadly, looking at that table, it's clear that Safari is the one dragging their feet. Full support for ES6 in the latest Chrome, FF, and Edge, but very poor support in the latest Safari. Actually Safari (well, Webkit), in beta, is the closest to full ES6 support of all current browsers -- down to 98% or so. It's just that Safari has a release only once or twice a year. But when it has, suddenly everybody on OS X/iO…
Comment linking /2016/03/25/the-chrome-distortion-chrome-alters-our-expectations-in-highly-negative-ways/
on “ES6 is beautiful”Submitted Idea: Using WebWorkers to bring native app best practices to JavaScript SPAs as a story · 1 points
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