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Nice cheat sheet collection

106 points by bemmu 16y ago

corin_ 16y ago
Would be a much more useful site if it had some sort of editorial standard, rather than "let's find as many pages that people call cheat sheets and shove them together in a huge directory".
- jpwagner 16y ago
  gotta start somewhere
- geekfactor 16y ago
  Looks like a nice passive-income site idea, using OPC (other people's content) to drive affiliate and ad clicks. I'm betting they're looking for everything they can find that can possibly be called a cheat sheet.
  - strait 16y ago
    Yes, and anyone can do it. The more the better. Then I'll create a cheat sheet for sites that index cheat sheets.
  - iwr 16y ago
    Not an evil thing in itself. Putting all that content in one location has some value.
kevinburke 16y ago
This is good but agree with corin_ that there's no way to tell which ones are good references and which aren't.
bwooceli 16y ago
Looks like a good ol' fashioned HN/Reddit up/down system would be a welcomed addition there...
sayemm 16y ago
Thanks - here's another one that I use often that's similar: http://cheat-sheets.org http://cheat-sheets.org Always super-helpful whenever you decide to pick up something new
- Breefield 16y ago
  I just stumbled onto this tonight from the Github cofounder's website. Looks cool.
simonsarris 16y ago
Annoyingly, 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-sheet/ 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.
hsuresh 16y ago
And there is also http://cheat.errtheblog.com/ http://cheat.errtheblog.com/. Good thing about this one is, it is accessible from your command line.
tim_church 16y ago
I am the founder of DevCheatSheet. Pleasantly surprised to see my site on Hacker News again. Thanks bemmu! I'm happy to answer any questions you may have about the site. Also, let me know if you have any feedback. To answer some of the common questions/feedback: * So far I have been focused on adding content, but now the site needs some sort of filtering to identify the relative value of each cheat sheet and easily find what you are looking for. I am still exploring different options for this including: page-rank type popularity scores, HN-style up/down voting, or traditional user star ratings. * Every cheat sheet is manually reviewed. I don't add every single page that calls itself a cheat sheet. There is definitely a wide range of quality, but this is somewhat inevitable given this is user-generated content aggregated from around the web. This is not necessarily a bad thing: for example, an obscure topic might only have one single low-quality cheat sheet, but this is still useful and better than no results.
- nhebb 16y ago
  Quick FYI - I ran across several broken links. Xenu Link Sleuth is free and handy for generating a broken links report.
  - tim_church 16y ago
    Thanks for the tip. I will definitely check that out.
vchien 16y ago
Great...Thanks~

106 points by bemmu 16y ago

Would be a much more useful site if it had some sort of editorial standard, rather than "let's find as many pages that people call cheat sheets and shove them together in a huge directory".

jpwagner 16y ago
gotta start somewhere
geekfactor 16y ago
Looks like a nice passive-income site idea, using OPC (other people's content) to drive affiliate and ad clicks. I'm betting they're looking for everything they can find that can possibly be called a cheat sheet.
- strait 16y ago
  Yes, and anyone can do it. The more the better. Then I'll create a cheat sheet for sites that index cheat sheets.
- iwr 16y ago
  Not an evil thing in itself. Putting all that content in one location has some value.

kevinburke 16y ago

This is good but agree with corin_ that there's no way to tell which ones are good references and which aren't.

bwooceli 16y ago

Looks like a good ol' fashioned HN/Reddit up/down system would be a welcomed addition there...

sayemm 16y ago

Thanks - here's another one that I use often that's similar: http://cheat-sheets.org http://cheat-sheets.org Always super-helpful whenever you decide to pick up something new

Breefield 16y ago
I just stumbled onto this tonight from the Github cofounder's website. Looks cool.

simonsarris 16y ago

Annoyingly, 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-sheet/ 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.

hsuresh 16y ago

And there is also http://cheat.errtheblog.com/ http://cheat.errtheblog.com/. Good thing about this one is, it is accessible from your command line.

tim_church 16y ago

I am the founder of DevCheatSheet. Pleasantly surprised to see my site on Hacker News again. Thanks bemmu! I'm happy to answer any questions you may have about the site. Also, let me know if you have any feedback. To answer some of the common questions/feedback: * So far I have been focused on adding content, but now the site needs some sort of filtering to identify the relative value of each cheat sheet and easily find what you are looking for. I am still exploring different options for this including: page-rank type popularity scores, HN-style up/down voting, or traditional user star ratings. * Every cheat sheet is manually reviewed. I don't add every single page that calls itself a cheat sheet. There is definitely a wide range of quality, but this is somewhat inevitable given this is user-generated content aggregated from around the web. This is not necessarily a bad thing: for example, an obscure topic might only have one single low-quality cheat sheet, but this is still useful and better than no results.

nhebb 16y ago
Quick FYI - I ran across several broken links. Xenu Link Sleuth is free and handy for generating a broken links report.
- tim_church 16y ago
  Thanks for the tip. I will definitely check that out.

vchien 16y ago

Great...Thanks~