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Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by monkeyjoe »

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.

"intents and purposes" ... I think I was saying it your way until at least age 30.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by AlchemistCamp »

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.

He made a very early call on Covid being a serious threat and promoted masking. Recode then wrote a piece about "Tech bros too afraid to shake hands" and since then his relationship with US media has deteriorated:

https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1228447944287932416

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by hunter2_ »

emsixteen wrote: post #128
gtirloni wrote: post #109

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I'd love to read more about that. Is that a new idiom?

there's a lot there are a lot

There's no way "there's a lot" is a contraction of "there is a list of a lot" which is what you're implying based on the way this particular thread has evolved.

Also, your example is ambiguous because "lot" is a singular noun (you wouldn't use "are" if the object is a parking lot, for example) but if you're truncating a longer phrase like "a lot of widgets" then "a lot" is modifying a plural noun (you'd definitely use "are" for that, or the informal apostrophe+s we're discussing).

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by ohashi »

snorgle wrote: post #120
makk wrote: post #89

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Their strategy from the start was to use evergreen technical content to attract devs, to raise the visibility of their products with target customers. It diminishes their early insights to cast this acquisition as merely part of a trend.

DigitalOcean’s strategy with evergreen technical content was to duplicate Linode’s strategy with evergreen technical content wholesale , down to individual articles. Linode Library, including a complete custom CMS and community engagement strategy to pay Linode users to help generate evergreen, was in place and driving conversions long before DigitalOcean was founded. They cribbed just about everything substantive fr…

I have worked tracking web hosts for over a decade now and have always followed Linode and Digital Ocean being that both were/are major players.

I'm curious when you think Linode lost the ball (I am assuming you accept that premise at this point in time given their size differences) and why?

Digital Ocean seemed to execute better and scale further, you put forth it was simply fueled by VC money. I know Linode had some major security incidents over the years which have harmed its reputation.

Curious if you're willing to share your thoughts on how it all played out for an industry observer?

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by smcnally »

867-5309 wrote: post #146
jonny_eh wrote: post #102

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

that's almost as annoying as "have you got them?" - "I do" - "do what.. do have? do got??"

c.f. “It’s raining.” “What's raining?”

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by infogulch »

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"?

I feel like I'd use "These are my courses" just to work around the awkwardness.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by asicsp »

mardifoufs wrote: post #69
tannhaeuser wrote: post #40

Hope they keep the site as it is, css-tricks.com has been consistently one of the best, if not the best CSS site around, to the point that I search there for a particular topic before going to general purpose search engines, and you'll frequently find Chris' original articles copypasta'd by "content marketers" anyway. I guess the big time push for CSS3 with ever-changing responsive requirements and new UI idioms of t…

Are there any similar websites but for web development in general (not just CSS)? Because this one is amazing! The insane amount of SEO spam articles you get whenever you look for guides/examples on Google makes it almost impossible to rely on just searching on Google when you need it. So I'm finding myself having to go back to looking for curated lists of quality websites...

Check out https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

Articles are discussed here often: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=joshwcomeau.com

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by ricardo81 »

867-5309 wrote: post #146
jonny_eh wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

that's almost as annoying as "have you got them?" - "I do" - "do what.. do have? do got??"

That sounds like something I would say, a more understandable aspect of Scots, even if it's no richt, ken.
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