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Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by petercooper »

yurishimo wrote: post #135
petercooper wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha, thanks! I've had a few serious acquisition conversations over the years, but it's never made sense because I enjoy what I do already and don't really want to move on to something else :-) Like many people, I would take "retire forever" money (and probably end up still working anyway) but that hasn't been on offer.

If you're comfortable sharing what amount "retire forever money" is for you, I'd be interested in what that number is. See profile for DM options if you don't want to post it publicly!

It wobbles around depending on my mood. At the most basic level, though, enough to pay off the mortgage, do a few fun things, and create a fund to draw down at 3.5% per year covering two good incomes – so somewhere in the $6-8m zone. If I were sick or had to stop working for some critical reason though, obviously that would drop pretty quick given lack of options.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

#172

Post by wildrhythms »

ElectronShak wrote: post #13

Whether it be setting up a LAMP stack on a server, securing nginx with Lets Encrypt, deploying a python ML model as a web service, you name it, DigitalOcean's tutorials just work. Thanks Digital Ocean! PS: I love the Idea of calling a single server a "Droplet" in the "Digital Ocean". Nice one DO.

I found the whole UI around the Droplets features is amazing compared to offerings from AWS/GCP. Props to the Digital Ocean UX/UI people

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by [deleted] »

anchpop wrote: post #151
DwnVoteHoneyPot wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Grammer conversations are the very pineapple of useless discourse, and I don't see why we don't nip them in the butt. Weather you say "literally" or "figuratively", both are equally understandable for all intensive purposes. So as far as I'm concerned these arguments serve no porpoise and we'd be better off if they faded into Bolivian.

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Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by sdjkfhhbf »

[deleted] wrote: post #173
anchpop wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Grammer conversations are the very pineapple of useless discourse, and I don't see why we don't nip them in the butt. Weather you say "literally" or "figuratively", both are equally understandable for all intensive purposes. So as far as I'm concerned these arguments serve no porpoise and we'd be better off if they faded into Bolivian.

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Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

#175

Post by thehodge »

petercooper wrote: post #171
yurishimo wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're comfortable sharing what amount "retire forever money" is for you, I'd be interested in what that number is. See profile for DM options if you don't want to post it publicly!

It wobbles around depending on my mood. At the most basic level, though, enough to pay off the mortgage, do a few fun things, and create a fund to draw down at 3.5% per year covering two good incomes – so somewhere in the $6-8m zone. If I were sick or had to stop working for some critical reason though, obviously that would drop pretty quick given lack of options.

I'll offer you a bacon sarnie and a £20 credit at Funstation in Leeds.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

#176

Post by unixbane »

ElectronShak wrote: post #13

Whether it be setting up a LAMP stack on a server, securing nginx with Lets Encrypt, deploying a python ML model as a web service, you name it, DigitalOcean's tutorials just work. Thanks Digital Ocean! PS: I love the Idea of calling a single server a "Droplet" in the "Digital Ocean". Nice one DO.

wtf? i came across some tutorials there for work (aka the place where we dont do things properly because we arent pad to do so) and it was all script kiddie crap targeting some specific ubuntu distro that wont work next month (or worse, all i remember was that this was particularly egregious and even worse than all the other tutorial crap ive seen in that period of time). these blogs have been common since the 2000s as a simple place to make ad revenue with little effort. they were never good and only come on the radar because they easily drown out actual real content on search engines.

also, the "popular this month" thing on the top front of css-tricks.com is buggy as hell (buttons go flying left and right depending on where you move the mouse, and other things, not sure how its even meant to be displayed)

i have another rant now: why do devs lack basic awareness which would be required to be aware of the fact that lazy loading content is bad for the user experience? is it because they are paid $100K-$200K (for now, this trend wont last forever) starting salaries in their bubble with fast connections? literally every single country outside the west has slow computers and internet, and every single piece of modern software are unusable on them. in the US meanwhile, you cant get fast internet either and 50% of users are on mobile which also once again brings you back to square one.

like wtf imagine being SOOO unaware of how your product is used that you think its only used on Reference hardware. seriously what have webdevs done in the last 14 years while i wasnt looking? i dont see one single thing that was improved. im pretty sure what happens is in their world they are hyper focused on some little head scratcher like "making this UI element be able to be hooked up in a declarative document cleanly in this specific way and having a declarative model of how it interacts with these other declarative components" and dont realize everything still sucks overall and is getting worse. none of that should be surprising though, because the web already obviously a bad idea 30 years ago when people decided that website owners should be able to make users do shit before being able to read/view the content

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by devjam »

pdevr wrote: post #117
archerx wrote: post #66

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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"?

Informal usage, as others have pointed out. Since it is informal, it can be read as "Hey I'm Chris Sev. Here's My [Collection/Set/List of] Courses", which is grammatically correct.

Yes, agree - if it were the "My Courses" page/section, it could definitely be read as such.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by [deleted] »

anchpop wrote: post #151
DwnVoteHoneyPot wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Grammer conversations are the very pineapple of useless discourse, and I don't see why we don't nip them in the butt. Weather you say "literally" or "figuratively", both are equally understandable for all intensive purposes. So as far as I'm concerned these arguments serve no porpoise and we'd be better off if they faded into Bolivian.

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Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

#179

Post by [deleted] »

anchpop wrote: post #151
DwnVoteHoneyPot wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Grammer conversations are the very pineapple of useless discourse, and I don't see why we don't nip them in the butt. Weather you say "literally" or "figuratively", both are equally understandable for all intensive purposes. So as far as I'm concerned these arguments serve no porpoise and we'd be better off if they faded into Bolivian.

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Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

#180

Post by AlchemistCamp »

archerx wrote: post #66
skilled wrote: post #15

Wow, pretty big sale! Big congrats to Chris. Interestingly, DigitalOcean has a knack for acquiring these technical dev sites, in 2019 it acquired Scotch.io[0] which was one of the better technical web development sites out there. Fun fact about Scotch, the founder (Chris Sev[1]) sold the site to DO, joined their team, and later managed to broker a deal to 301 redirect a lot of the pages to his new project Better.dev[…

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"?

My internal compiler rejects that syntax. It's not uncommon but reading a headline like that does tend to make me less confident that whatever is in the page is worthwhile.

If he doesn't even proofread his headline, how sloppy will the rest of the site be?

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