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Patrick Meenan
Personal blog · blog.patrickmeenan.comwebprogramming
Patrick Meenan's personal blog at blog.patrickmeenan.com covers web and programming. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite these posts on web performance, including progressive JPEGs and how CDNs reduce latency for clients. The comments link the posts as references and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A technical blog by Patrick Meenan
What Hacker News says?
Have you started serving progressive JPEG? It's actually surprisingly good for that and supported by just about everything: http://blog.patrickmeenan.com/2013/06/progressive-jpegs-ftw....
Comment linking /2013/06/progressive-jpegs-ftw.html
on “WebKit has implemented srcset”Submitted Clearing IE's Caches - Not as simple as it appears as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFor those that don't know what CDN is here supposed to do: http://blog.patrickmeenan.com/2010/03/google-to-offer-cdn-se... If I understood it correctly, the idea is to refer to the web resources in html in such a way to let the clients access them with the minimal possible latency, no matter where the clients are.
Comment linking /2010/03/google-to-offer-cdn-services.html
on “Yes, browsers do cache SSL resources, so please use Google's CDN”Submitted Testing for front-end SPOF on a website by blocking 3rd party JavaScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Updated WebPagetest “Data Center” Tour as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Android web performance testing takes a big leap forward as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anatomy of a MyBB Forum Hack as a story · 1 points
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