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Drew McLellan
Personal blog · allinthehead.com/retro · on HN as drewmclellanwebprogrammingdesign
Drew McLellan writes All in the Head, a personal blog at allinthehead.com about web, programming and design. Since 2007, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Progressive Versioning”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Drew McLellan's posts on progressive enhancement and on adding an Apple touch icon without SSH. Commenters cite them as sources or how-tos rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ponderings and code by Drew McLellan
Most-linked posts?
- Progressive Versioning2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-14
- How To Make Your Website Fast2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-16
- Why is Progressive Enhancement so unpopular?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-29
What Hacker News says?
Hmm. None in particular, though you could just look around for some of the older resources on progressive enhancement - that's what it's called, and it used to be a recommended practice everywhere . There's also this post, that goes into it somewhat: http://allinthehead.com/retro/367/why-is-progressive-enhance... - also, Brad Frost has some posts about this.
Comment linking /retro/367/why-is-progressive-enhancement-so-unpopular
on “Things to Know When Making a Web Application in 2015”Submitted How A Missing Favicon Broke My App for Chrome Users as a story · 78 points
HN discussionAs a followup I don't seem to be the only one thinking like this [1]. [2] comes close to what I'd like, but the last update is from 2012 and the author doesn't seem to have done a lot lately. [1]: https://allinthehead.com/retro/367/why-is-progressive-enhanc... [2]: https://github.com/jamesallardice/Progressive.js
Comment linking /retro/367/why-is-progressive-enhancement-so-unpopular
on “Choosing Ember over React in 2016”Submitted Moving from Basecamp to ActiveCollab as a story · 44 points
HN discussionHe's just a guest author. Drew McClellan is the guy behind 24 Ways ( http://allinthehead.com/ ) and if I remember correctly this design is a couple years old now. Sidenote, seems Chrome has now entered the "pompous Opera phase", wherein Opera users used to always ignore the fact that they're in the vast minority of web browsers and point out every browser problem they have like it's the designer's fault instead of O…
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on “Rock Solid HTML Emails”Submitted Progressive Versioning as a story · 39 points
HN discussionMake your own without the need to SSH or do anything special: http://allinthehead.com/retro/319/how-to-set-an-apple-touch-...
Comment linking /retro/319/how-to-set-an-apple-touch-icon-for-any-site
on “Ask YC: PG, Can we please get an iPhone icon?”Submitted How To Make Your Website Fast as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Building Sites In Subfolders as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cost Effective Web Development Techniques as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can Your Website be Your API? (semantic markup + microformats on public pages obsolete read heavy API's?) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Progressive Versioning as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is Progressive Enhancement so unpopular? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To Make Your Website Fast as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Import, Subscribe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rebuilding 24 ways as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted If content is important to you, keep it close as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Best Forms Implementation I've Ever Built as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coping With Internet Explorer's Mishandling of Buttons as a story · 1 points
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