[tannhaeuser]

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 the 2000's and 2010's is behind us, as witnessed by css-tricks's forum with contributions from other world-class experts having closed down last year or so. Could be worse than DO for sure.

[jjcm]

I'm actually pretty optimistic about this - DigitalOcean does great work around docs and tutorial type sites. Half of the time when I search for things like, "how to install nvm on Ubuntu 20.04" a digital ocean article comes up, and it's really well done.

[radicalriddler]

The amount of times at my last company, as a frontend developer, who was being told to build ubuntu vm's for web servers, DO saved my life.

[appel]

You made me breathe a sigh of relief. These 'x has been acquired by Y' alerts usually don't seem to end so well, so I'm hoping that's not the case here. Regardless, I'm happy for Chris, he deserves it.

[mardifoufs]

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...

[acomjean]

I took a react class and the intro was a lot of html/css/design stuff. The CSShints site isn't just CSS, so its worth exploring.

There is a lot of good stuff published that's hard to find. I wish I had a better catch all resource page.

Codepen.io is a good playground to play around with html/css/javascript and it has some javascript frameworkstuff too.

A lot of people put together good content. It seems to surface though blogs and twitter. Some links/papers we used (without the CSShints pages). A lot of them have more content if you explore.

https://cssclass.es/materials/#elements-and-tags

https://chenhuijing.com/blog/how-i-design-with-css-grid/#%F0...

https://www.wpkube.com/html5-cheat-sheet/

https://programmingdesignsystems.com/what-is-a-design-system...

https://atomicdesign.bradfrost.com/chapter-1/

http://alistapart.com/article/the-king-vs-pawn-game-of-ui-de...

https://brucelawson.co.uk/2018/the-practical-value-of-semant...

https://alistapart.com/article/my-accessibility-journey-what...

[tannhaeuser]

There used to be many blog posts by web designers showing up for inspiration - a weird mix of nerds, oriental ladies, and self-taught experts pushing the limit and genuinely in search of the one proper visual representation of some piece of content. I think people underestimate how much of what we take for granted on the web today was pioneered by these folks. sitepoint, alistapart used to be good as well (w3fools, not so much).

[8ytecoder]

MDN is pretty good.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/

[thex10]

I enjoy Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com

[asicsp]

Check out https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

Articles are discussed here often: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=joshwcomeau.com

[Eric_WVGG]

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.

[irrational]

Conspiracy theory - digital ocean bought css tricks in order to shut it down in the hopes of decreasing css knowledge so that people don’t realize that their CSS is bad so that they don’t have to pay for a redesign.

[kosasbest]

It covers more than CSS. The 'CSS' part always threw me off reading articles, but I realized early on that JS, HTML & APIs are all part of it.

[reflectiv]

Yea...

DO has some really great documentation for their services so I am hopeful they will only enhance/make-better css-tricks.

[dylan604]

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.