Page 14 of 21 of the Unsolicited Advice Archives

1. Twitter Is Dying

   Social media and social networking sites feel like more trouble than they're worth these days. Why I'm spending less time on Twitter.

2. Structuring URLs for AWS Certificate Manager and CloudFront

   I set up SSL/TLS on both webinista.com and this blog using AWS Certificate Manager. Certificate Manager makes makes it absolutely trivial to add SSL/TLS support to an AWS CloudFront distribution. What's more, certificates are free. Adding a certificate is easy, but if you have a directory-style URL

3. My 2015

   Hey, my 2015 was pretty great … y'know, in case you care.

4. Troubleshooting Chrome's An invalid form control is not focusable error

   If your form control isn't focusable, make sure it's visible / being displayed.

5. Fix problems connecting to iTunes, App Store, or any HTTPS sites after upgrade to El Capitan (OS X 10.11)

   How to fix HTTPS certificate errors after upgrading to El Capitan.

6. CSS stacking contexts: What they are and how they work

   Stacking contexts are an aspect of CSS that trips up most developers. I don't think I fully understood them until I wrote the layout chapter of CSS Master. Sure, I understood that z-index required position to be something besides static. But that's about as far as my comprehension went, even

7. Fixing the WP_CACHE constant error message with WP Super Cache

   TL; DR: Check your line breaks. One of my recent projects involved upgrading and optimizing a WordPress/BuddyPress-driven site. As part of these optimizations, I installed the WP Super Cache plugin. Like most caching plugins, WP Super Cache generates and serves HTML files to site visitors, instead of retrieving data

8. How :nth-of-type() works … a redux

   In my post How the :nth-child() and :nth-of-type() pseudo-classes work, I tried to demystify how the :nth-of-type pseudo-class works. Although I didn't get it wrong, I didn't get it quite right either. First a recap: in the previous post, I used the SVG document below to illustrate how :nth-of-type() works

9. How the :nth-child() and :nth-of-type() pseudo-classes work

   10 Aug 2015: Read the follow-up post How :nth-of-type() works … a redux. It clarifies and corrects this post. One of the things I most enjoyed about writing CSS Master was that I got to do deep-dives on aspects of CSS that I hadn't fully explored. I found the :nth-* pseudo-classes