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CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by zorobo »

lgl wrote: post #36
sintaxi wrote: post #20

Wow, Omarchy is hot right now. Great to see all these companies contributing to a future with Linux on desktop. Good on Digital Ocean for making such a substantial commitment. It would be a shame if css-tricks went offline after all these years. I can understand it winding down now that we are in the age of agents but I hope to see it preserved in some way so it stays online for a very long time.

> Great to see all these companies contributing to a future with Linux on desktop. I'm thinking they're merely riding the free publicity wave. Who, in their right mind, would contribute to the super narrow definition of linux desktop preached by DHH? Was "being agentic" and "being keyboard shortcut oriented" the big gaps preventing the adoption of linux on desktop? I honestly fail to see why everybody is so convinced…

> Was "being agentic" and "being keyboard shortcut oriented" the big gaps preventing the adoption of linux on desktop?

Of course not but dhh makes it clear omarchy is not for everybody. And that’s all right.

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by piskov »

judah wrote: post #113
wg0 wrote: post #26

I am concerned that what will happen to detailed technical write ups that defined much of the "technical internet space"? There used to be "CodeProject" (still is around probably) that used to have great articles on C, Windows Programming, Windows System programming and what not. Similar other sources on Web as well such as some TutPlus network. Now with LLMs, they won't gain attention and all knowledge would be stuc…

FYI, CodeProject.com appears to have been shut down a few months ago. I used to visit (and contribute) to the site regularly through articles and Q&A answers. When StackOverflow took over, I moved most of my Q&A answers there, and I suspect many others did too. The site languished until a few months ago when it started serving a blank page. Now it appears totally offline. ;-(

Went to readonly mode in 2024

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by legobmw99 »

jarek83 wrote: post #127

Getting linux to work flawlessly on M Macs is "just a bunch of scripts"? Wow. Since when tech folks judge the open-source projects so harsh and so much just after they only started?

On the off chance this isn't just trolling: Getting linux to work on M-series Macs was a ton of work and basically none of it was done by the folks behind Omarchy. Exactly the point being made in this argument and elsewhere is that the funding would be better off going to the people who really did the hard parts of that work (e.g. Ashai developers among others)

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by panny »

benatkin wrote: post #93
account42 wrote: post #14

Complaining that they give money to people you don't like is not a good look when you want them to give money to people you do like.

In this case you can judge for yourself if it's an overreaction. https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a

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Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by paulhebert »

kreetx wrote: post #94
paulhebert wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author of this post is not complaining that they are not being paid. The editor of CSS Tricks who was hired by Digital Ocean is the one who is not getting paid. I think it is morally in the right for employees to get paid by their employers

The author of this post is complaining about CSS-Tricks not getting paid. If the person who works ("works") for Digital Ocean but is not getting paid, should pretty leave immediately if that is the case. :) I.e, demanding on some moral premise that this other guy who I don't like is getting money, is quite a "far-left" way to go about it.

The author of the post (Vale) is talking about how the editor of CSS Tricks (Geoff) is not being paid by the owner of CSS Tricks (Digital Ocean)

This is not the first issue since Digital Ocean acquired CSS Tricks.

I’d encourage you to educate yourself more on the situation instead of discounting people as “far-left” (whatever you think that means in this context)

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by CM30 »

rkeswick wrote: post #18

The writing quality definitely dropped after the acquisition. It's a shame, CSS-Tricks taught me so much early on.

It really lost something when Chris Coyier stopped writing for it. He just had a way of writing fun and approachable tutorials for this stuff, and the other contributors didn't hit the same style.

(no shade to Geoff Graham, he did good work as well)

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by willio58 »

ChiperSoft wrote: post #75

The more relevant post is by Geoff himself. https://geoffgraham.me/why-css-tricks-has-been-quiet/

I mean, that post says basically nothing of substance, compared to the post linked by OP.

That said, this is a sad situation. If I’m reading this right, essentially digital ocean has just stopped paying the main contributor to css tricks for no clear reason.

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by kreetx »

paulhebert wrote: post #135
kreetx wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author of this post is complaining about CSS-Tricks not getting paid. If the person who works ("works") for Digital Ocean but is not getting paid, should pretty leave immediately if that is the case. :) I.e, demanding on some moral premise that this other guy who I don't like is getting money, is quite a "far-left" way to go about it.

The author of the post (Vale) is talking about how the editor of CSS Tricks (Geoff) is not being paid by the owner of CSS Tricks (Digital Ocean) This is not the first issue since Digital Ocean acquired CSS Tricks. I’d encourage you to educate yourself more on the situation instead of discounting people as “far-left” (whatever you think that means in this context)

Well, the post is calling David Heinemeir Hansson "far-right". I'd instead encourage him, and perhaps you, to educate yourself on what that means, then read up on his blog post(s).

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by kreetx »

Catloafdev wrote: post #87
kreetx wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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That's the verbiage racists use to try to make it sound like it's not racism. Spoiler: it's racism.

Do you think if the immigrants didn't change the situation for the worse, he'd be making the same arguments? I doubt it.

Re: CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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Post by bastawhiz »

danieljacksonno wrote: post #124
boredpudding wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because being friendly works doesn't work. Open source maintainers have been screaming about funding for years. One dude comes along, adds some scripts on top of all the work of those maintainers, and gets millions in funding? You can't expect people to be nice then. It's completely messed up.

"One dude" that has been one of the lead and most well known contributors to open source for decades now.

If Linus Torvalds published it I don't think that would make it worth throwing millions of dollars at. When you stop paying for one thing and start paying for another, you're making a value statement about what you care about.
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