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Pat Dryburgh

Personal blog · patdryburgh.com/blogwebdesign

Pat Dryburgh's personal blog at patdryburgh.com covers web and design. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “No Serial Number Needed - Follow up to buying adobe”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-22, and you can follow it by feed.

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9mentions?
6HN people?
2011–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 8 in 2012

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked for posts on preparing for John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion review and on Adobe's Creative Cloud licensing for Photoshop CS6. Commenters cite these as follow-ups to those discussions.

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.

Pat Dryburgh is a designer, developer, and musician based in London, Ontario, Canada.

Most-linked posts?

  1. No Serial Number Needed - Follow up to buying adobe
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-28

What Hacker News says?

  1. wkral · 2012-07-25Recommends
    If you need to properly prepare for this review checkout this video: http://patdryburgh.com/blog/preparing-for-john-siracusas-rev...

    Comment linking /blog/preparing-for-john-siracusas-review-of-mountain-lion/

    on “John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review”
  2. Submitted Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6 as a story · 200 points

    HN discussion
  3. An update to my Creative Cloud confusion: http://patdryburgh.com/blog/no-serial-number-needed/

    Comment linking /blog/no-serial-number-needed/

    on “Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6”
  4. Submitted Shutting Down My Site as a story · 81 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Range as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Censorship On Hacker News as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Are Web Fonts Ready for Prime Time? as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted No Serial Number Needed - Follow up to buying adobe as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Adding a Custom DuckDuckGo Search Bar to Your Site as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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