Page 12 of 21 of the Unsolicited Advice Archives

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   Potential gotchas when migrating to PHP 8

   PHP 8 makes some useful improvements and changes to the language. But you may need to migrate...

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   CSS Logical Properties

   Logical properties offer a way to create writing mode independent layouts for multi-lingual site...

3. On Twitter

   I wrote this post as a list of thoughts because I'm not sure there's much of a reason to make it a coherent piece. Elon Musk bought Twitter for an absurd amount of money. $54.20 per share is more than Twitter stock traded for earlier this month...

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   How Flexbox Works

   Flexbox can be difficult to understand just by using it. In this post, I explain what the...

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   CSS Selectors :nth-child and the of S clause

   One of the features introduced by the level 4 selectors specification, is the of S clause used...

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   Buy the third edition of CSS Master

   CSS Master is back with a third edition. The book, aimed towards CSS authors with a bit of...

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   Flash Is Dead.

   Flash laid the conceptual groundwork for much of what we now do with native web technologies.

8. Migrating from macOS to Ubuntu

   My primary laptop is a MacBook Pro from 2015 — the last of the great keyboard era. But it's also closing in on four years old, which is about the time when things start to go wrong. I'm a freelancer. My laptop is literally how I earn a living. If it

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   Pick up the second edition of CSS Master

   In 2015, I wrote my first solo book on Cascading Style Sheets: CSS Master. The book, aimed...