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Alone On A Hill
Company blog · aloneonahill.com/blog · on HN as DaveChildprogrammingweb
Alone On A Hill is the company blog at aloneonahill.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2019, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “If PHP Were British (2011)”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link the 2011 post "If PHP Were British", a parody rewriting PHP in British English, usually as a precedent whenever British spelling or English-style code comes up. Other links include a Wordle alternatives list.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- If PHP Were British (2011)16 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2019-05-28
- If PHP Were British (2011)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-08
- Wordle Alternatives – A Comprehensive List (221 and counting)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-08
What Hacker News says?
Along similar lines: If PHP Were British: https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ Reddit Proper: https://www.reddit.com/r/proper/
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on “Victorian Hacker News”Submitted If PHP Were British (2011) as a story · 94 points
HN discussionNo mention of the British PHP article yet‽ https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
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on “Rouille”Submitted If PHP Were British (2011) as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSomewhat related: "If PHP Were British" (2011) - https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ My favorite part: would_you_mind { // Code here } actually_i_do_mind (Exception £e) { // Politely move on cheerio('Message'); } Past HN discussions: - May 28, 2019 - 46 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20029836 - Dec 2, 2022 - 366 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33828509
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on “Bespoke: A programming language for people who say please”Submitted If PHP Were British (2011) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI mean, it would be lovely if HTML (invented by a British English speaker) used en_GB throughout. I think it's only "dialogue" which is misspelled in HTML5. Although the obsolete "centre" element is also wrong ;-) You might enjoy this article on if PHP were British. https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
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on “Localisation is too hard for Gmail”Submitted If PHP Were British (2011) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionBritish PHP uses 'perchance ... otherwise': - https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/#:~:text=E... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33828509
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on “If-then-else had to be invented (2020)”Submitted If PHP Were British as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis should be paired with British PHP ( https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ )
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on “BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English”Submitted If PHP Were British (2011) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI was expecting something along the lines of https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
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on “Rost – Rust Programming in German”Submitted If PHP Were British (2011) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere is a precedent for this: British PHP. https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
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on “When or If”Submitted Wordle Alternatives – A Comprehensive List (221 and counting) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMuch like https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
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on “A PostCSS plugin for people who prefer to write English properly”Submitted If PHP Were British as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIs this the perpetual meme that will never die? https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
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on “A PostCSS plugin for people who prefer to write English properly”Submitted If PHP Were British (2011) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere's a large list: https://aloneonahill.com/blog/wordle-alternatives/
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on “Wordle – But for D&D”More like this story on the same site, maybe? https://aloneonahill.com/blog/the-disney-princess-desk-proje...
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on “Princess: Coding Like Royalty”Something along the lines of https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british maybe?
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on “Princess: Coding Like Royalty”Looks similar to the British dialect of PHP: https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
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on “Teuton – A German Programming Language”It reminds me of this great blog post: https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
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on “PHP's Oddities”This somehow reminds me of "If PHP Were British" and I can't help but read it again. [1]: https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british
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on “PostCSS plugin for writing Canadian / British stylesheets”
