CSS-Tricks in Limbo

(vale.rocks)

104 points | by edent 5 hours ago

14 comments

  • wg0 4 minutes ago
    I am concerned that what will happen to detailed technical write ups that defined much of the "technical internet space"? There used to be "CodeProject" (still is around probably) that used to have great articles on C, Windows Programming, Windows System programming and what not. Similar other sources on Web as well such as some TutPlus network.

    Now with LLMs, they won't gain attention and all knowledge would be stuck in LLMs but there would be no knowledge base to train the LLMs on so... would this all collapse in a decade or two?

    PS: Not anti AI rant, just a genuine open question.

  • rkeswick 22 minutes ago
    The writing quality definitely dropped after the acquisition. It's a shame, CSS-Tricks taught me so much early on.
    • kreetx 11 minutes ago
      > David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH). Previously of Ruby on Rails fame, but now of Omarchy notoriety and far-right, racist infamy.

      The quality of writing isn't great here either.

  • account42 26 minutes ago
    Complaining that they give money to people you don't like is not a good look when you want them to give money to people you do like.
    • boredpudding 4 minutes ago
      Because being friendly works doesn't work. Open source maintainers have been screaming about funding for years. One dude comes along, adds some scripts on top of all the work of those maintainers, and gets millions in funding?

      You can't expect people to be nice then. It's completely messed up.

    • prinny_ 22 minutes ago
      I think it’s a very good look when the people you complain about are racists.
      • IslandRebel 3 minutes ago
        I personally find it tiresome. This happens every few years where someone creates a project or does something that becomes popular and then someone starts combing through everything they've said to find something objectionable.

        Someone went back like 10 odd years on Jeff Geerling's blog and found that he had at the time (not sure what his position is now and don't care) some mild anti-abortion views. Loius Rossman made an offhand remark about transexuals and he gets called a fascist.

    • blactuary 20 minutes ago
      "People you don't like" is a great euphemism for racists
  • ewy1 24 minutes ago
    the title is really underselling it; as the post is very concise, i won't repeat it here but it's worth reading
  • est 19 minutes ago
    Perhaps just make it open source and static host it
  • owebmaster 1 hour ago
    That's what going to happen to tailwind too after the acquisition.
    • EspadaV9 1 hour ago
      Has Shopify given money to Omarchy too? Or more so because now Tailwind is owned by someone larger?
    • threetonesun 44 minutes ago
      Tailwind is basically already EOL in its functional inability to support newer CSS features. Both of these projects seemed like the creator being fine with getting out with a nice paycheck, and that's ok by me, although it's unfortunate DO lied about how it would handle CSS Tricks going forward, and generally abandoned the tech writing aspect it was initially known for.
  • Theodores 1 hour ago
    Almost all magazines go though an arc of success, plateau and decline. Audiences and writers move on or retire.

    I very much like and use CSS-Tricks, however, in itself it reflects a somewhat dated frontend design process and rarely uses any CSS tricks to clothe the Wordpress core that enforces dated design processes.

  • sintaxi 19 minutes ago
    Wow, Omarchy is hot right now. Great to see all these companies contributing to a future with Linux on desktop. Good on Digital Ocean for making such a substantial commitment.

    It would be a shame if css-tricks went offline after all these years. I can understand it winding down now that we are in the age of agents but I hope to see it preserved in some way so it stays online for a very long time.

  • micromacrofoot 1 hour ago
    what are people using instead of digital ocean now?
    • rpastuszak 1 minute ago
      Hetzner + Coolify + BunnyCDN for the entire stack

      I'm moving off Vercel / AWS. I kept DO for a Minecraft server for friends/family but that's dead.

    • recov 24 minutes ago
      I switched over to vultr months ago, so far so good!
    • spiderfarmer 47 minutes ago
      Hetzner. I like the company and how they operate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQeJYEN_lrg

      Plus, it's an EU company. I don't want to rely on US hosting for my business.

    • jordanscales 1 hour ago
      Hetzner
  • jgalt212 30 minutes ago
    few people ever miss an opportunity to kick DHH.

    > A set of scripts and configurations which are led by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH). Previously of Ruby on Rails fame, but now of Omarchy notoriety and far-right, racist infamy.

  • TechDebtDevin 2 minutes ago
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  • thrownaway561 59 minutes ago
    Let's call it what it is, someone crying because their project isn't getting the love it wants while someone new did. Welcome to life. This happens all the time in business. CSS-Tricks is old, it had it's time and now it's time to move on. DO can do whatever they want. If they want to focus on getting Omarchy popular, then so be it.

    And dude, what is with all the DHH hate??? The dude isn't a Nazi, fascist or racist. The dude sees the country he loves turning into a cesspool and wrote about it. We're seeing the same thing here in the US with all these immigrants taking over Michigan.

    • blactuary 17 minutes ago
      "He's not racist!"

      (says something racist)

    • IslandRebel 18 minutes ago
      > Let's call it what it is, someone crying because their project isn't getting the love it wants while someone new did. Welcome to life. This happens all the time in business. CSS-Tricks is old, it had it's time and now it's time to move on. DO can do whatever they want. If they want to focus on getting Omarchy popular, then so be it.

      CSS Tricks was a massively useful resource. However tailwind and/or other frontend frameworks have abstracted a lot of this away and tbh I've haven't even bothered looking at the site in several years.

      > And dude, what is with all the DHH hate??? The dude isn't a Nazi, fascist or racist. The dude sees the country he loves turning into a cesspool and wrote about it. We're seeing the same thing here in the US with all these immigrants taking over Michigan.

      Unfortunately political polarisation is affecting everyone and everything.

      The topic is an almost obligatory mention any time Omarchy gets mentioned. I've seen stuff like this webpage https://stopomarchy.neocities.org/ where they are claiming Jeff Geerling to be a fascist, which is obviously ridiculous.

      I don't believe DHH to be a fascist or whatever (yes I read the blog post, it is standard reactionary politics that been around for about a decade now). I am not sure why feel the need to constantly mention it, I understand he may have some views that people disagree with, but he cannot realistically affect any change. The obligatory mention feels performative IMO.

      Moreover, I deeply disagree with the politics of many prominent people (of all political persuasions) that are often front and centre in tech, you won't hear me mentioning it unless it is relevant to their work or they are in a position to actually affect change.