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Ryan Stewart writes Digital Backcountry, a personal blog at blog.digitalbackcountry.com about programming and web. Since 2008, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.

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2008–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2010

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Why HN links it

Ryan Stewart's Adobe developer blog, linked on HN for Flash news: Flash Player 10.1 on Android and Adobe's compiler from other languages to ActionScript. Commenters cite it as a source; none judge the writing.

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The home of Ryan Stewart. A blog about random bits.

What Hacker News says?

  1. From the source ( http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2010/05/examples-of-flash... ): We’ll be releasing a public version of Flash Player 10.1 at Google I/O Expected, but wasn't confirmed until now. Nice. So we all should have it in a week or so and be able to run our own tests.

    Comment linking /2010/05/examples-of-flash-content-running-on-android/

    on “Flash for Android running fairly well on the Nexus One”
  2. Submitted The Day Google Erased Me From the Internet as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  3. by "supporting" other languages they mean they can compile the interpreter's c/c++ source code using their LLVM->actionscript bridge ( http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=1095 ) they came up with and then run the script on top of that actionscriptified interpreter. which, even for people like me who drink the interpreted-languages-are-fast-enough koolaid, seems like a lot of levels of indirection :) i think the CL…

    Comment linking /?p=1095

    on “Adobe Flash to cross-compile code from C, C++, Java, Python, and Ruby to ActionScript”
  4. Submitted RIM is pushing Flash for applications on it's new tablet as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Testing Battery Life and Performance with Flash Player on the Nexus One as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Using requestAnimationFrame to Optimize Dragging Events as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Don’t Settle for a Mediocre HTML5 App Experience as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Ryan Stewart : I Hate That We’ve Gone Native | as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted HTML5 Can’t Exist Without the Flash Platform as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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