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All these years, I thought it was a site for community. Dang, TIL, it was a business. We will miss you CSS-Tricks.
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I've been a DO customer since 2013 and never in that time have I hosted any of my sites or apps on other platforms. They're super good in every department; support, pricing, tools, and of course, tutorials. Only a shame they rolled out all the affiliate credits. In the first year I generated like $1,500 in affiliate revenue from a single review post I did. At the rate of $5 per droplet, that's 25 years worth of hosti…
I agree DO is good in pricing, tools, and tutorials. But support? I've had terrible experiences with DO support, enough so that I fled to a different provider. Maybe they're improving, but DO tends to drop the account lock hammer quickly on first sign of any anomaly that the algorithm doesn't like, rendering the victim helpless and relegated to groveling and begging for compassion. One can hope that a tweet gets pick…
I couldn't recommend them for any real business. Great to start with maybe, but make sure you have an exit plan.
It was actually very nice for it's time, I wonder if anyone from DO remembers this.
Edit: See http://jessecha.se/work/buoy.html
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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.
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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".
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I’m not debating anything you’ve argued (I don’t know enough to know one way or another, except I will say that as an end-user, I remember liking DO’s documentation more in 2011 than Linode’s, but that doesnr mean the content is wasn’t still largely copied), but didn’t Slicehost (RIP) innovate the whole docs/tutorials as a sales funnel thing? I’m sure DO took a lot of inspiration from Linode, but it always seemed lik…
100%. Good memory, too. Slicehost probably deserves credit as well. I’m not arguing for who deserves it. Arguing for who doesn’t. Slicehost’s approach to a number of things was better in a lot of ways and they did documentation a little differently, but you’re right, the funnel concept is the same (between all three). I miss them too. They were respectful competitors and I know they were generally liked by competitor…
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One could even argue that "here's" is now an accepted conjugation of "here are".
As a non-native English speaker myself, I still find native using contraction on "there's two cats" counter intuitive. Sometimes I use the correct grammar "there are two cats" but then it sounds too formal for the native to heard it. Then I have to adjust with the "wrong" way of saying it.
Written contractions are meant to faithfully represent spoken English, in which people indeed say “there’s” for both the singular and the plural.
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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 $6-8m zone. If I were sick or had to stop working for some critical reason though, obviously that would drop pretty quick given lack of options.
I'll offer you a bacon sarnie and a £20 credit at Funstation in Leeds.
Wow, pretty big sale! Big congrats to Chris. Interestingly, DigitalOcean has a knack for acquiring these technical dev sites, in 2019 it acquired Scotch.io[0] which was one of the better technical web development sites out there. Fun fact about Scotch, the founder (Chris Sev[1]) sold the site to DO, joined their team, and later managed to broker a deal to 301 redirect a lot of the pages to his new project Better.dev[…
Did the quality of the content on scotch.io change? Can we expect the same thing for CSS-tricks?
And then eventually was redirected to DigitalOcean.
Also, just to add my own thought to this - CSS-Tricks is of course very loved by people who learned things there, and people who respect Chris Coyer as a designer. But, these acquisitions do have an effect on how people perceive a project, and skepticism is very high on that list.
They seem to be keeping the "Write for Us" option open, with 300$+ a pop per guest post + promotion to your project. If anything, it will become a haven for those kind of posts. If not, they might by some miracle find a really good person (dev or designer) who is willing to take on the reigns for a while. Unlikely, though.
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As a non-native English speaker myself, I still find native using contraction on "there's two cats" counter intuitive. Sometimes I use the correct grammar "there are two cats" but then it sounds too formal for the native to heard it. Then I have to adjust with the "wrong" way of saying it.
There’s nothing grammatically incorrect about “there’s”. The oversight is in confusing a contraction with an abbreviation. “There’s” is a contraction for either “there is” or “there are” and the precise one is given by context. It is not a mere abbreviation for “there is”. Written contractions are meant to faithfully represent spoken English, in which people indeed say “there’s” for both the singular and the plural.