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Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by manigandham »

jonny_eh wrote: post #102
mcdonje wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From a prescriptive grammar standpoint, you're correct. From a descriptive standpoint, I'm not sure how common that contraction is, but I've heard it before and offhand it seems like it gets used in some regions. Phonologically, it makes sense that it would gain traction as it's a means of avoiding the effort of the 'ere are' vowel combination. It's an addition rather than an elision, but the underlying motivation of…

One could even argue that "here's" is now an accepted conjugation of "here are".

It's not accepted, it's just common ignorance.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by ravenstine »

CSS Tricks was the biggest help back when I was first teaching myself proper web design and then doing freelance web development back in my early days. Chris Coyier and Ryan Bates (of Railscasts) alone taught me 80+% of what I needed to know to get my start in the industry.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by freedomben »

awill wrote: post #85

I don't really understand DigitalOcean's market here. They're obviously. not going after the main cloud players, but it seems strange that they're targeting consumers directly. They spent a lot of time/money crowdsourcing documentation for things that weren't cloud-specific, like patching wordpress, installing apache etc, and now CSS-Tricks. Wouldn't consumers who'd benefit from these sorts of tutorials prefer a prop…

DO recently rolled out their "App Platform" which is targeted at developers who don't know much infra/devops. I would guess promoting that is what drove this decision since CSS Tricks has such a good name/reputation with the exact target market. Ads (especially subtle ads) placed on CSS Tricks would be worth a fortune.

But even still, I'm mainly an infra/devops/backend guy who occasionally needs to hack on front end, and I've ended up at CSS Tricks a number of times. So it's probably a great buy if used as an advertising hole and to boost SEO credibility.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by travisd »

mcdonje wrote: post #95
archerx wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the headline on better.dev it says "Hey I'm Chris Sev. Here's My Courses", shouldn't it be "Here are my courses"?

From a prescriptive grammar standpoint, you're correct. From a descriptive standpoint, I'm not sure how common that contraction is, but I've heard it before and offhand it seems like it gets used in some regions. Phonologically, it makes sense that it would gain traction as it's a means of avoiding the effort of the 'ere are' vowel combination. It's an addition rather than an elision, but the underlying motivation of…

I think out loud you'd be more likely to hear "here're your donuts" rather than "here's your donuts"), but when written, here're looks way worse. Language (written, spoken, and otherwise) is interesting and resistant to fitting into nice, neat, tidy boxes.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by remedan »

DwnVoteHoneyPot wrote: post #116
efdee wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These kinds of arguments literally kill me.

Since we're discussing grammer, when you say "literally", you mean figuratively?

They are using the phrase "literally kill me" as a hyperbole. It is a form of exaggeration. They are not in fact being killed, they are just annoyed. It is a rhetorical device used for emphasis.

The word "literally" has been commonly used for hyperbole in English for hundreds of years. There is nothing grammatically wrong here.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by riffic »

rchaud wrote: post #110
petercooper wrote: post #36

This is part of a broader trend. Last year, Balaji Srinivasan tweeted about the idea of SaaS companies buying media companies – https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1374363031417753609 – and as an observer/operator in this space, I've heard about a lot of conversations going on behind the scenes with larger companies expressing an interest in smaller media companies (including my own - I value autonomy too much but for…

I think Balaji is more interested in having SaaS create their own Ministry of Information to do their PR instead of needing to rely on journalists who seem to be generally unfriendly to him.

no idea who this guy is or what makes him an authority but from a quick google about unfriendly journalists this is quite something:

https://boingboing.net/2021/02/15/silicon-valley-investor-ca...

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by riffic »

technotarek wrote: post #64

Does this include CodePen? If so, DO if you’re listening, please give your current customers a break on the paid versions :)

CodePen still seems to be run as an independent company if I'm not mistaken.

I wouldn't be surprised to see it start pivoting to look like the Cloud9 IDE (or Fog Creek's Glitch) of DigitalOcean, though.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by ChrisArchitect »

Why does DigitalOcean want to build their selection of content out? It's kind of weird. They don't need to become some big dev article repository/media engine. Other than to consistently push devs consuming the content towards their services (good as they may be). Happy for Chris and the team to get something (substantial?) back for their efforts and maybe free up their time, but having these openweb resources just be sucked up constantly by 'media conglomerate' strategies isn't the best feeling vs independent/somewhat isolated resources.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by LordDragonfang »

jonny_eh wrote: post #102
mcdonje wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From a prescriptive grammar standpoint, you're correct. From a descriptive standpoint, I'm not sure how common that contraction is, but I've heard it before and offhand it seems like it gets used in some regions. Phonologically, it makes sense that it would gain traction as it's a means of avoiding the effort of the 'ere are' vowel combination. It's an addition rather than an elision, but the underlying motivation of…

One could even argue that "here's" is now an accepted conjugation of "here are".

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/here%27s

>1. Contraction of here is.

>2. (nonstandard) Contraction of here are.

Note this has been listed since at least 2006, based on the history.

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