Congrats! I've referenced the site for my entire programing life and really like it a lot, but other than that I don't have much background on how it came to be. Does anyone know if Chris ever wrote about his motivations for or history of the site?
DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks
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#62All frontend developers: keep the Flexbox article alive please.
Their Flexbox and Grid guides are the best. I've been using both since pretty much the start and I still look up syntax from them at least once a week.
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#63Hope 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…
Yea... DO has some really great documentation for their services so I am hopeful they will only enhance/make-better css-tricks.
When looking up how to do something on my EC2 instance, I often find a DO writeup that is better written than the AWS docs. Obviously, this is for generic Linux sysadmin type stuff, and nothing specific to cloud vendor stuff.
If a DO link is returned in my search, I tend to click on it.
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#64Does this include CodePen? If so, DO if you’re listening, please give your current customers a break on the paid versions :)
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#65CSS Tricks played a critical part in teaching me about web designs. It was a paradise for an introvert like me to hangout at, and also learn new skills.
Congratulations, Chris!
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#66Wow, 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"?
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#67All frontend developers: keep the Flexbox article alive please.
Whoever owns the Flexbox article: please reformat it in a single column so I can read it without having to go into Reader View each time.
No!!!! Please don't!! My muscle memory would go totally out of whack if this happened. You can continue to use reader view and enjoy your muscle memory workflow, but don't go changing mine. Parent info on the left, child info on the right.
Also, requesting your non-flexbox layout for your documents on how to do flexbox seems rather ironic.
Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks
#68Wow, 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"?
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Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks
#69Hope 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...
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#70Whether 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.
Haha thanks, in the first month Ben wasn't quite happy with that and wanted us to call them virtual servers, but I overruled him ^_^