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I think the people I have the most respect for are the people who master cross-browser CSS going back to IE7.

Is there another equivalent when it comes to a somewhat popular technology where quirky fixes are actually the main part of the work process?

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Integrating various python modules/ruby gems that all monkey patch over each other?

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On a more serious note, the closest equivalent I can think of is porting games to work on windows, linux and mac platforms. You would have to have a good understanding of the entire renderer, any main event loops and physics, as well as experience in writing very low level code on all those platforms.

Yes, this would be very challenging. Making games cross-platform is not the typical GUI app out there, and is not the sort of app I was thinking about on my blogpost.

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