Treehouse Blog
blog.teamtreehouse.com · Company blog · on HN since 2012
Treehouse, an online coding education company, publishes posts on web development, iOS, startups, and how it runs its flat-structured team.
What HN saysHN commenters cite it for the no-manager flat company post, an Interface Builder critique, and practical HTML5 guides on datalist autocomplete and unclosed tags.
74HN people shared it
18linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Working in a Flat Company (2013)3 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 2Work less3 people · first shared 2013
- 3Startup founders reveal their #1 user acquisition tactic2 people · 45 points · first shared 2012 · 13 comments on HN
- 4Web Developer Launches Physical Product on Kickstarter2 people · 28 points · first shared 2013 · 4 comments on HN
- 5Why I Don't Use Interface Builder2 people · 13 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 6Google's "Love Letter" to Developers2 people · 12 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 710 sales lessons that helped this guy close over $178k in deals2 people · 10 points · first shared 2012 · 2 comments on HN
- 8Working with Shadow DOM2 people · 6 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 9Treehouse Donates $3 Million Worth of Tech Education to 2,500 College Students2 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · 2 comments on HN
- 10Why is chinese web design so bad2 people · first shared 2016
- 11Increase your sites performance with hardware accelerated css2 people · first shared 2013
- 12PSD to HTML is Dead1 people · 304 points · first shared 2014 · 164 comments on HN
- 13Design Tips Every Developer Should Know1 people · 97 points · first shared 2012 · 18 comments on HN
- 14How to Interpret Ridiculous Web Design Job Posts1 people · 66 points · first shared 2014 · 33 comments on HN
- 15How I Wrote a Book in 3 Days1 people · 53 points · first shared 2012 · 46 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
sachadso · 2016-03-08
Using Interface builder is Great indeed it just has a ton of other issues down the road, this article sums it well : http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/why-i-dont-use-interface-builder
simonebrunozzi · 2015-03-15
Also worth a mention is Teamtreehouse and their "no manager" rule: http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/working-in-a-flat-company
jakub_g · 2021-12-27
Side note: basic autocomplete can be done fully without JS using <datalist>
https://blog.teamtreehouse.com/creating-autocomplete-dropdowns-datalis…
y4mi · 2019-03-25
that is wrong. this is valid html5 for example:
<ul>
<li>content
<li>content2
</ul>
quick google got me this blog post: https://blog.teamtreehouse.com/to-close-or-not-to-close-tags-in-html5
ingenieros · 2019-03-14
There's no such thing as "low-effort ports to VR" as you are describing. When you model a 3D object for flat screens, scale is really not that much of a concern whereas in VR the player's immersion might be completely ruined if something feels just slightly off. Here's a nice blog post I found on the topic which goes much more in depth: https://blog.teamtreehouse.com/size-matters-scale-relationships-vr
rux · 2017-03-28
It's from a while back, but here Treehouse describe how they operate on a 9am-6pm four-day week.
http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/work-less
I remember talking to Ryan Carson (the guy who put this into place) at a conference and he said that the results from doing it were overwhelmingly positive.
brownbat · 2016-11-23
Treehouse has the opposite view for beginners:
http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/python-2-vs-python-3
Go figure. It's an enduring debate with strong opinions on opposing sides.
The whole topic feels a little flame-baity to me.
wolfgke · 2016-11-17
What is considered as good design depends a lot on the zeitgeist and culture. For example in Asia (e.g. China, but also Japan) there is a rather different taste what is considered as a well-designed website:
https://econsultancy.com/blog/67466-why-do-chinese-websites-look-so-bu…
http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/why-is-chinese-web-design-so-bad
https://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-different/
mosselman · 2016-06-09
You could look at moving the animations to the GPU.
You could read this ( I just duckduckgoed this, but it looked like what I remember it involves to do this).
http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/increase-your-sites-performance-with-har…
GFischer · 2016-02-12
Interestingly, there are some cultural differences in web design, Japanese for example expect a cluttered website:
http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/big-in-japan-web-design-in-the-…
https://randomwire.com/why-japanese-web-design-is-so-different/
http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/why-is-chinese-web-design-so-bad
bcx · 2015-02-17
When we started this Olark, we were big readers of TeamTreehouse (http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/working-in-a-flat-company), and Valve (http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf).
I can't help but think there are some elements their organizations that they leave out when projecting them outward.
junto · 2014-09-17
Java, here's a starting point:
http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/java-basics-for-android-development-part…
mryan · 2013-12-16
Carsonified also does this: http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/work-less
achalkley · 2013-04-18
If you're interested : http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/web-developer-treehouse-teacher-kickstar…
:)
quarterto · 2013-03-31
Modern browsers can hardware-accelerate CSS animations. http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/increase-your-sites-performance-with-har…
freshfey · 2012-10-26
- The Ultimate Sales Machine: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591842158/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&am…
- Spin Selling: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0070511136/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&am…
and this is a very good article on the general topic:
http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/sales-lessons
nhebb · 2012-09-14
Direct link:
http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/treehouse-3-million
In short, Treehouse is giving away 2,500, 2-year long subscriptions to college students.
College students can always major in CS. With the down economy, personally I would find it more inspiring if they gave away some to people trying to find new careers.
wvenable · 2018-12-18
https://css-tricks.com/box-sizing/
https://blog.teamtreehouse.com/box-sizing-secret-simple-css-layouts
https://quirksmode.org/css/user-interface/boxsizing.html
https://www.jefftk.com/p/the-revenge-of-the-ie-box-model
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/12351
https://jgthms.com/minireset.css/
https://github.com/sindresorhus/modern-normalize
https://semantic-ui.com/globals/reset.html