Alone on a Hill

aloneonahill.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2019

Alone on a Hill is a personal site best known for the humorous "If PHP Were British" and a list of Wordle alternatives.

What HN saysHN commenters mostly link "If PHP Were British" whenever British spelling or English variants in code come up.
20HN people shared it
13linked it in comments
9stories submitted
156story points
3 months agolast shared
2019people per year2026

Most-shared posts

  1. 1
    If PHP Were British (2011)
    17 people · 154 points · first shared 2019 · 46 comments on HN
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  3. 3
    The disney princess desk project
    1 people · first shared 2024

What HN people wrote when they linked it

over190bpm · 2026-05-23
It reminds me of this great blog post: https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
edent · 2020-10-21
I 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/
4ndrewl · 2025-03-27
I was expecting something along the lines of https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
PetitPrince · 2025-02-21
This should be paired with British PHP ( https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ )
novoreorx · 2024-09-26
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
rob74 · 2024-02-08
Something along the lines of https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british maybe?
kej · 2024-02-08
More like this story on the same site, maybe? https://aloneonahill.com/blog/the-disney-princess-desk-project/
susam · 2022-09-15
Along similar lines: If PHP Were British: https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/ Reddit Proper: https://www.reddit.com/r/proper/
rbonvall · 2022-03-14
There is a precedent for this: British PHP. https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
rzzzt · 2021-09-11
No mention of the British PHP article yet‽ https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
gpmcadam · 2020-05-22
Is this the perpetual meme that will never die? https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/

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