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Added Bytes
Personal blog · addedbytes.com · on HN as DaveChildwebprogrammingcareer
Added Bytes is a personal blog at addedbytes.com about web, programming and career. Since 2008, 33 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “If PHP Were British”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- If PHP Were British8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2014-04-09
- If PHP Were British7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2011-08-20
- Useful cheat sheets for a many aspects of web-dev4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-04-21
- Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet (V2)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-08-04
- What Happened to ILoveJackDaniels.com?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-07-01
- Javascript cheat sheet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-09-01
What Hacker News says?
Thanks :) - glad they were useful! I've got a paypal thing on the cheat sheet download pages ... http://www.addedbytes.com/download/subversion-cheat-sheet-v1...
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on “Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?”Submitted If PHP Were British as a story · 347 points
HN discussionObligatory "If PHP Were British"? http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
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on “PHP Sucks But I Like It”Submitted If PHP were British as a story · 162 points
HN discussionIt usually depends on what it's a cheat sheet about - I always keep an electronic copy, but specific ones get pinned to my cubicle walls. These are the two big ones that I keep up at all times. I don't always use the VI/VIM one (a lot of the keystrokes become ingrained after repeated use, but when I have to switch environments, the transition back is always smoother with it). VI/VIM: http://michael.peopleofhonoronly…
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on “All The Cheat Sheets An Up To Date Web Designer Needs: CSS3, HTML5 and jQuery”Submitted URL Rewriting for Beginners as a story · 82 points
HN discussionI moved it to a new domain, as scq was kind enough to also comment. It's at http://www.addedbytes.com now.
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on “I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me into acquiring. Help”Submitted Javascript cheat sheet as a story · 21 points
HN discussionIt's still around, just called Added Bytes ( http://www.addedbytes.com/ ) now.
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on “I own a domain that a big corporation wants to sue me into acquiring. Help”Submitted What Happened to ILoveJackDaniels.com? as a story · 7 points
HN discussionqwerty keyboard is my favorite example. Designed to solve the key sticking problem when typing too fast but now we're all stuck with a layout designed to be inefficient. https://www.addedbytes.com/blog/dvorak-vs-qwerty/
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on “JavaScript developers are incredible at problem solving, unfortunately”Submitted URL Rewriting for Beginners as a story · 6 points
HN discussionnot as nice as they were in the case of ilovejackdaniels.com: http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/what-happened-to-ilovejackdan...
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on “The Whiskey Rebellion”Submitted The Myth of the “Unlimited Holiday” and How We Do It as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIt is curious to me why GCHQ didn't just contact GitHub to acquire github.com/gchq but instead decided to go with the long and cumbersome github.com/GovernmentCommunicationsHeadquarters. Perhaps it is a British thing [1]. [1] https://www.addedbytes.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
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on “Gaffer: Large-scale graph database by GCHQ”Submitted If PHP Were British as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLove it, reminds me of "If PHP Were British" ( http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ ) Wouldn't mind a few more substitutions in the language, but it seems like most of the work went into making a really nice landing page. Great job there! (Autoplay music forgivable on a joke at least)
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on “The Queen’s stylesheets”Submitted If PHP Were British as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - Brighton and London, UK Full stack PHP development. LAMP setup, app coding (happy with MVC systems, framworks like CodeIgniter or Zend, etc), e-commerce (Magento and OpenCart especially), CMS sites (MODX, Drupal, Wordpress) or full bespoke builds. Check out my site for more about me, previous work and so on: http://www.addedbytes.com
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013)”Submitted Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet (V2) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK (or London) I'm a freelance full stack PHP dev, happy with front end dev (HTML, CSS, JS) and back end dev (PHP, Linux, Apache, MySQL). Plenty of experience with e-commerce, especially Magento, MODX, Drupal, OpenCart and WordPress. My portfolio and more info are on my site at: http://www.addedbytes.com
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2012)”Submitted How To Manage Your Cash Flow As A Freelancer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAnnoyingly, they sort their sheets by first-one-added = last-on-list. The best cheat sheet for javascript, and the #1 hit on google for "javascript cheat sheet", is the very last one on the last page of their list: http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/javascript-cheat-shee... In fact, none of the first page of javascript "cheat sheets" are cheat sheets in the conventional sense of the word.
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on “Nice cheat sheet collection”Submitted If PHP Were British (2011) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is kinda lame, but I use it regularly because I cannot remember regular expression syntax: http://www.addedbytes.com/download/regular-expressions-cheat... The perl regex cheetsheet.
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on “Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?”Submitted If PHP Were British as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDon't forget to pair it with British PHP: http://www.addedbytes.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ Now you have a royal web development stack.
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on “Spiffing CSS: the preprocessor made for Brits”Submitted Great comparison of Open Source PHP e-commerce platforms as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot quite yet, but early days for my projects: http://www.addedbytes.com/projects/ I'm working hard on the top three, and aiming to start making some real money out of them by the end of summer.
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on “Who is living off their (bootstrapped) startup fulltime?”Submitted If PHP Were British as a story · 2 points
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