DigitalOcean Abandons CSS-Tricks While Funding DHH's Omarchy
CSS-Tricks in Limbo
CSS-Tricks is stuck in limbo again after DigitalOcean went silent, leaving the site inactive and its future unclear. The company recently pledged $3 million to Omarchy, a set of scripts and configurations led by David Heinemeier Hansson, while ending $50 monthly payments to GNOME and Flathub. The author argues this shows a lack of care for the web ecosystem and the publication's own writers and editors.
I know Geoff has been trying to raise this for months, to no avail. Atop of this, DigitalOcean has ceased the monthly $50 payments they previously gave to GNOME and Flathub infrastructure.
- ChiperSoft
The more relevant post is by Geoff himself.
- wg0
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
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.
- rkeswick
The writing quality definitely dropped after the acquisition. It's a shame, CSS-Tricks taught me so much early on.
- bilater
Tbh I can't see how any site about tooling doesn't go the way of Stack Overflow. I used to follow the latest framework and CSS articles avidly. With agents it's a moot point.
It's sad. But rather than fight it, we should be thinking about what communities we form next, in a world where knowing flexbox tricks isn't a flex.
- ewy1
the title is really underselling it; as the post is very concise, i won't repeat it here but it's worth reading
- wiesson
Can’t the site be migrated to Astro/static and be hosted on CF/Vercel? It could be a great resource for LLMs
- est
Perhaps just make it open source and static host it