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Personal blog · sonniesedge.co.uk/blogwebwriting
Full is a personal blog at sonniesedge.co.uk about web and writing. Since 2016, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Yes, progressive enhancement is a fucking moral argument”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link its progressive enhancement post and the 2017 'a day without JavaScript' test of sites such as Feedly and Netflix. One commenter finds the tone heavy with expletives and anger.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Yes, progressive enhancement is a fucking moral argument2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-09
- A day without JavaScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-07
- /posts/progressive-enhancement2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-04-24
What Hacker News says?
I found the Sonniesedge blog to rely quite heavily on expletives and anger. It's a shame: there are some great articles in there, but it becomes hard to read. This, for example: https://sonniesedge.co.uk/blog/progressive-enhancement
Comment linking /blog/progressive-enhancement
on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?”Submitted A day without JavaScript as a story · 386 points
HN discussionHere's a dump of the "Programming" folder from my RSS reader: Aphyr's (aka the guy behind the Jepsen distributed system test series): https://aphyr.com/ Fred Herbert, the author of Learn You Some Erlang: http://ferd.ca/ Eevee, who posts a mishmash of stuff about programming in general but these days is mostly focussed on games: https://eev.ee/ Tef/Programming is Terrible, which features strong opinions about program…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?”Submitted Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You as a story · 220 points
HN discussion> I generally agree with what he is saying "I’m a 30-something woman living in Berlin, Germany (the famous one, with the wall and stuff)." https://sonniesedge.co.uk/about/
Comment linking /about/
on “A day without JavaScript”Submitted Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You as a story · 191 points
HN discussionActually, I was referring to https://sonniesedge.co.uk/posts/progressive-enhancement , who literally self-identifies as a "whiney SJW feminist fuck" in the first paragraph. And it's less "undermines my agreement" and more "Eww, I'm on the same side of this argument as such-and-such evil person; please don't assume this means I agree with them about anything else.". I'd go back and clarify, but the edit window is ove…
Comment linking /posts/progressive-enhancement
on “Blloc – minimalist smartphone”Submitted The mysterious case of missing URLs and Google's AMP as a story · 141 points
HN discussionLooks like you are getting downvoted. I upvoted you, so I'll leave this here because is relevant: https://sonniesedge.co.uk/posts/progressive-enhancement Come on, the website is only text, images, and a few forms, why would you render it in JavaScript. I don't see any additional benefit compared with plain HTML, CSS. It is not a rich web application, even if it were. Also, there's been server-side rendering for a wh…
Comment linking /posts/progressive-enhancement
on “Blloc – minimalist smartphone”Submitted Yes, progressive enhancement is a fucking moral argument as a story · 6 points
HN discussionProbably jekyll https://sonniesedge.co.uk/posts/jekyll
Comment linking /posts/jekyll
on “Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You”Submitted An open letter to the guy who wrote that 'Always Hacking' tweet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionVery good IMHO that someone is "fighting from the inside", ar least verbally. I guess her previous post [2017] testing "mainstream" sites without Javascript is worth a mention: https://sonniesedge.co.uk/posts/a-day-without-javascript
Comment linking /posts/a-day-without-javascript
on “Dear Developer, the Web Isn't About You”Feedly, Netflix, Google Maps, as of this article: https://sonniesedge.co.uk/blog/a-day-without-javascript
Comment linking /blog/a-day-without-javascript
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