CSS-Tricks in Limbo

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wg0•16 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.

account42•38 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•16 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.

oefrha•12 minutes ago

In this case CSS-Tricks got paid $4m first, so probably the wrong entity to be complaining about funding. But maybe the lead editor in question who’s not the creator didn’t see much of that?

boredpudding•9 minutes ago

CSS-Tricks didn't get paid $4m. They got acquired. The previous owner of CSS-Tricks got $4m.

mb_thd•6 minutes ago

"people you do like" in this case refers to a website that DigitalOcean owns. "people you don't like" is a singular (racist) guy who slapped a bunch of scripts on top of Arch and somehow receives hundreds of thousands of dollars for it.

blactuary•32 minutes ago

"People you don't like" is a great euphemism for racists

prinny_•35 minutes ago

I think it’s a very good look when the people you complain about are racists.

IslandRebel•15 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 plus odd years on an old 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 and was called a fascist. Loius Rossman made an offhand remark about transexuals and he gets called a fascist.

It is quite obvious for some it has become nothing other than witch hunt.

boredpudding•10 minutes ago

There's a difference between when people have a platform. Made a mistake 10 years ago? Fine.

But that's very different than using your huge platform today to spread your hate.

Pretending those two are the same is dangerous. One of them does actual harm today.

rkeswick•35 minutes ago

The writing quality definitely dropped after the acquisition. It's a shame, CSS-Tricks taught me so much early on.

kreetx•23 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.

ewy1•37 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•31 minutes ago

Perhaps just make it open source and static host it

owebmaster•about 2 hours ago

That's what going to happen to tailwind too after the acquisition.

EspadaV9•about 2 hours ago

Has Shopify given money to Omarchy too? Or more so because now Tailwind is owned by someone larger?

sevenseacat•about 2 hours ago

Tobi and DHH are like BFFs, and yes, they have.

https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-... Founding member, donating a million dollars.

ActionHank•32 minutes ago

Gotta say, given the list of security issues that continue to be found in Omarchy, if I were an enterprising explorer, I'd be probing for shopify employees running Omarchy.

threetonesun•about 1 hour 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•about 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.

micromacrofoot•about 1 hour ago

what are people using instead of digital ocean now?

rpastuszak•14 minutes 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•37 minutes ago

I switched over to vultr months ago, so far so good!

spiderfarmer•about 1 hour 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•about 1 hour ago

Hetzner

jgalt212•42 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.

thrownaway561•about 1 hour 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•30 minutes ago

"He's not racist!"

(says something racist)

chunkyslink•8 minutes ago

They guy writes things like this https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64.

Let me say that the generalisations made in here about a far right minority march as if it is 'all brits' is brazen, but not naive.

He want's you to think all Brits think like this, in order to push his racist agenda. Let me tell you his mate Tommy Robinson is despised by many.

Don't fall for it. Divide and conquer. As old as British Imperialism.

IslandRebel•31 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.

sintaxi•32 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.

lgl•5 minutes ago

> Great to see all these companies contributing to a future with Linux on desktop.

I'm thinking they're merely riding the free publicity wave. Who, in their right mind, would contribute to the super narrow definition of linux desktop preached by DHH?

Was "being agentic" and "being keyboard shortcut oriented" the big gaps preventing the adoption of linux on desktop?

I honestly fail to see why everybody is so convinced that the linux desktop will be "saved" by Omarchy, a set of scripts specifically designed to mostly satisfy a narrow slice of power users and developers.

Also, sponsoring a multi-millionaire's AI generated side project to the sum of many millions of dollars instead of contributing to the dozens or hundreds of thankless developers that have built and maintained most of the current linux ecosystem is pretty disgusting imho.