Links by Friday 013 - Running a Billion Dollar Business
It's March 1, 2024 Tinyletter has officially been shut down by Mailchimp, Digital Ocean's neglect of CSS-Tricks.com causes a stir in the frontend community, forcing Chris Coyier to finally speak up. Drama, drama.
I hope you're not so tuned in to what's happening in the world and that you have a safe space to disconnect and find peace.
Running a Billion Dollar Business
Moving into a leadership role can be challenging. Daniel Buchhuber shares his learning from running Automattic for a month.
Additionally, I also encourage the team on a daily basis to:
Actively work together before they come to me. On a soccer field, the team would get nowhere if they had to ask the coach before every pass.
Come to me with “I intend to,” not “What should I do?” Actively acting on their own and reporting progress represents the highest level of initiative.
My Condolences, You’re Now Running a Billion-Dollar Business – WordPress.com News
A few things I’ve learned during my interim role of running WordPress.com
The CSS-Tricks Drama
Chris Coyier who ran CSS-Tricks and sold it to Digital Ocean shares his opinion on the state of the site 2 years later.
Where I’m at on the whole CSS-Tricks thing – Chris Coyier
It was March 2022 when I sold CSS-Tricks to DigitalOcean. So it’s been just about 2 years now. This was me and my wife’s thinking: The negotiated sale price was fair. They are a big com…
What is Utility-First CSS?
https://heydonworks.com/article/what-is-utility-first-css/Where utility classes come in is they allow you to make occasional exceptions to these generalized styling rules. That’s their utility, and their only utility. They do not embody utility per se and they are not the most useful thing in CSS.
JSR First Impressions
JSR is called the “JavaScript Registry” and not the “Deno Registry”. That’s because it’s designed to work with all JavaScript runtimes. Beta invites are going out if you join the waitlist. I’ve been exploring it this week.
JSR is the JavaScript Registry by the folks from Deno which aims to be runtime agnostic. Will it replace NPM for most developers?
JSR: First Impressions – David Bushell – Freelance Web Design (UK)
The one where I try out a fancy new JavaScript repository
How YouTube Killed IE6
The story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to kill IE6 from inside YouTube and got away with it.
A Conspiracy To Kill IE6
The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to tell the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to... | Chris Zacharias | Founder of imgix. YCombinator alum. Ex-YouTuber. Studied New Media at RIT.
That's it, see you next time.