> Strangers on the internet will come across your little random story if it's public, and rather than blaming first-time readers for not understanding the context nor the voice of the author, maybe the author could adjust the article to provide the context or make the voice stronger/more obvious?

I'm not "blaming" anyone. I'm just pointing out that the commenters here are missing the point of the story because they don't understand the context, and that this is a fairly common phenomenon.

I think it's fine to tailor your writing to a community of like-minded readers rather than a first-time reader from here that is unlikely to come back.

> Honestly, I'm fine with not understanding everything from communities I don't generally hang-around, it's bound to happen at one point or another.

Me too, of course. It just makes a discussion without that context, i.e., what's happening here, detached from what the author meant with the post.

> Sounds just like what the author could expect from a discussion in a community which is not the same community they usually find themselves in ("a particular mac-centric community", whichever that refers to).

The author of the blog post did not submit the article to Hacker News.

Anyway, I wish that HN commenters would apply the same HN guidelines to article authors that they do to each other. It's all too easy to rip on someone who isn't here to explain or defend themselves. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> maybe the author could adjust the article

That's how the web ends up filled with pablum that offends none but the most easily offended, but draws in the most eyeballs and most upvotes/likes/retweets to become viral.