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DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by hunter2_ »

nlarew wrote: post #76
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"?

"here are my courses" is definitely more grammatically correct for written English but "here is my courses" sounds like something you'd say informally in conversation when you're not overthinking grammar. Maybe the goal is to sound more personable/folksy?

I'm guilty of the occasional are->'s contraction when speaking quickly, but I'd never just substitute are->is because that doesn't save a syllable.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by Eric_WVGG »

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…

I'm kind of hoping the reverse happens, and the front end devs at Digital Ocean get some lessons in responsive design and browser compatibility. I love the Digital Ocean product, but their dashboard is just full of quirks that give me the impression that the devs there just test things out in Chrome at one window size and then peace-out for happy hour.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by bradly »

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 remember setting up Rails servers years ago and constantly referring to DO's tutorials.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by benmanns »

hunter2_ wrote: post #81
nlarew wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"here are my courses" is definitely more grammatically correct for written English but "here is my courses" sounds like something you'd say informally in conversation when you're not overthinking grammar. Maybe the goal is to sound more personable/folksy?

I'm guilty of the occasional are->'s contraction when speaking quickly, but I'd never just substitute are->is because that doesn't save a syllable.

's short for "is the list of"

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by awill »

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 properly managed solution rather than an IaaS?

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by omarhaneef »

riazrizvi wrote: post #86

Does this mean that DigitalOcean has become another platform company that is monitoring their customers’ business performance for possible acquisition? If so beware.

Why beware? If you're not forced to sell and they offer you an option, it seems like a net benefit.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by makk »

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…

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.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Post by moehm »

dylan604 wrote: post #67
nyanpasu64 wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Reminds me of this: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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