Articles by Tiffany B. Brown

• Why is my WordPress dashboard so slow?
• What I learned by releasing a WordPress plugin
• Best things I Heard This Week (Week 28, 2025)
• Best Things I Heard This Week (Week 23, 2025)
• Series I Savings Bond Rate Update May 2025
• Popover pattern and CSS
• Popover tutorial
• Sports investing
• How mortgages work
• What Is a Brokered CD?
• My 2025 Planner is DIY
• Can’t connect to local MySQL server error with MariaDB and Homebrew
• Series I Savings Bond Rate Update, November 2024
• Mutual funds vs ETFs
• Black Satire is Just Fine, Maya
• Picking stocks at random may give you outsized returns
• Browse and search WordPress actions and filters
• Best Things I Heard This Week (Week 19, 2024)
• Best Things I Heard This Week (Week 18, 2024)
• Series I Savings Bond Rate Update, May 2024
• Show them the money
• Best Things I Heard This Week (Week 17, 2024)
• Best Things I Heard This Week, (Week 16 of 2024)
• Spin-off Corporations and Cash in Lieu of Fractional Shares
• Use a planner to track your habits
• Holiday Cheer: Mulled Wine (or Apple Cider) Recipe
• What is an index fund?
• Bond Funds: Risks and Rewards
• Series I Savings Bond Rate Update, November 2023
• Resolving a @parcel/optimizer-swc error message
• Is College Worth It?
• Are you rich?
• Bond risks
• On SitePoint: An Overview of CSS Sizing Units
• The Best Things I Heard This Week (week ending July 28, 2023)
• Being raised by rich parents is not meritorious
• The Best Things I Heard This Week (week ending July 21, 2023)
• Real Estate Investment Trusts: The affordable way to be a landlord
• Links of Interest for July 13, 2023
• Cars are expensive
• The Best Things I Heard This Week (week ending July 7, 2023)
• Legacy and donor admissions aren't merit-based either
• Managing media and animations with IntersectionObserver
• The Best Things I Heard This Week (week ending June 30, 2023)
• What is stock and what does it mean when you own it?
• Rich Dad Poor Dad is a terrible personal finance book
• Juneteenth 2023 reads
• Inverted yield curve explained
• The Best Things I Heard This Week (week ending June 9, 2023)
• Understanding bond yields
• Life expectancy declines in the United States
• Insurers are starting to pull out of California due to wildfire risk
• What is a money market fund?
• 10 reflections from our recent trip to Paris, France and Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
• Series I Savings Bond Rate Update, May 2023
• Raise the (debt) roof … erm, ceiling!
• Links of Interest for April 21, 2023
• launchd notes to self (mostly)
• Should Black Americans Buy Homes?
• Native CSS Nesting: A Primer
• You can now talk trash about your ex(-employer)!
• The reward for loyalty is more work
• Links of Interest for March 26, 2023: Should we think of obesity as a disease?
• Grand Crew is the best show you aren't watching
• Curry powder and the question of authenticity
• Links of Interest for March 16, 2023
• What is preferred stock?
• Links of Interest for March 12, 2023
• Environmentally-friendly eating
• Tech layoffs have hit me too
• Double Your Money: The Rule of 72
• Ford F-150 Lightning electric pickup is not great for the environment
• Links of Interest for February 28, 2023
• Thai food diplomacy
• Tracking billionaire carbon emissions
• Medical debt means Southerners have worse credit
• Crypto is not a good investment
• Wednesday Web Dev Links
• YAML, Automated Accessibility Testing, and Ways to Use :has()
• Planning an Early Retirement
• Friday Four: Links to end the week
• Afro-Atlantic Histories at LACMA
• The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America Review
• Links of Interest for January 9, 2023
• What do I get out of blogging?
• Links of Interest for January 5, 2023
• Less mentoring, more sponsorship
• Learning How to Build Wealth Through Investing
• Meditating on Middle Age
• Links of Interest for December 28, 2022
• Bond Buying 101
• Links of Interest for December 24, 2022
• A Book I Read: American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson
• Baskets of Eggs
• Holidaze 2022
• What you're doing isn't helping
• Neighborhood density and the climate
• How to Buy Savings Bonds or Treasury Bonds
• How do You Say ‘Qatar’?
• How to Buy Treasury Bills and Treasury Notes
• BG is Free
• The changing usage of LOL
• Can microfarms reduce food insecurity?
• Links for December 5, 2022
• Black Twitter
• Questions to ask yourself about money
• Links of interest for December 1, 2022
• Electric Automotivation
• Links of Interest for November 29, 2022
• Links of Interest for November 28, 2022
• On Twitter, Part 3
• On Twitter, Part 2
• Helping Whereby Users Get the Most Out of Whereby
• Potential gotchas when migrating to PHP 8
• CSS Logical Properties
• On Twitter
• How Flexbox Works
• CSS Selectors :nth-child and the of S clause
• Buy the third edition of CSS Master
• Flash Is Dead.
• Migrating from macOS to Ubuntu
• Pick up the second edition of CSS Master
• CSS Variables For Fun and Profit
• Meet the #RRGGBBAA CSS color syntax
• Using multiple SSH keys with GitHub
• 45 Seconds on the California Coast
• Block distractions with /etc/hosts
• No seriously: Don't use @extend
• My 2016: QuitoHongKongVegas
• Handyphone: Your pocket hotel and city guide
• HK All Day
• Twitter Is Dying
• Structuring URLs for AWS Certificate Manager and CloudFront
• My 2015
• Troubleshooting Chrome's An invalid form control is not focusable error
• Fix problems connecting to iTunes, App Store, or any HTTPS sites after upgrade to El Capitan (OS X 10.11)
• CSS stacking contexts: What they are and how they work
• Fixing the WP_CACHE constant error message with WP Super Cache
• How :nth-of-type() works … a redux
• How the :nth-child() and :nth-of-type() pseudo-classes work
• Setting up WordPress on AWS Elastic Beanstalk with RDS
• Layout-Related Specifications: A Reading List
• The CSS.supports() API revisited
• Using attr(), with pseudo-elements and JavaScript
• Three of my favorite tools
• Using FlexSlider 2 with WordPress
• Use a bucket policy to make all objects in an S3 bucket publicly readable by default
• Setting URL redirects with S3
• Using Cyberduck with S3
• On freelancing
• An Introduction to IndexedDB
• Subtitles and captions with WebVTT
• Faux placeholder clearing with CSS
• Date input in HTML5: Restricting dates, and a thought for working around limitations
• Use IDL attributes to test <input type=""> support
• Range controls and padding in IE10+
• Getting to Know Mutation Observers
• CSS 3D Transforms on Dev.Opera
• Understanding 3D Transforms
• How every conversation about race ever on the internet goes
• Why doesn't my scale3d() / scaleZ() transform work?
• A look at the Page Visibility API
• WordPress: Adding custom galleries to your theme
• @supports API lands in Firefox Nightlies
• Supporting and detecting @supports
• Make fewer DOM updates with createDocumentFragment()
• Meet the datalist element
• Array.prototype.map() versus Array.prototype.forEach()
• Striped border bug on transformed elements in ≤ Opera 12.02
• Toying with CSS Filter Effects
• Opera Mini and JavaScript
• Testing for CSS 3D Transforms Support
• Introduction to XMLHttpRequest Level 2
• Demystifying the CSS transforms matrix functions
• Understanding the CSS Transforms Matrix
• input type="range" and Android's stock browser.
• An Introduction to HTML5 Web Messaging
• input type="url", validation and user interfaces
• DOM Access Control Using Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
• Late night lizard
• HTML5 for AS3 Developers: FormData versus URLVariables
• What is HTML5?
• Dispatching Custom DOM Events
• HTML5 for AS3 Developers: cross-domain.xml and Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
• Toggle 'blind' effect with CSS3 transitions
• Class manipulation with classList
• Meet the Selectors API
• Quick PHP Tip: Uploading multiple files in HTML5
• On being 'Black' versus being 'African-American'
• Relational database design explained — sort of
• Why ActionScript 3.0 should be your first programming language
• The HTML5 video progress event: Redux
• The HTML5 video progress event
• Increment and decrement, prefix and postfix
• Twitter, privacy, and informational self-determination
• Thoughts on Barack Obama and Choosing Blackness
• When “American” is not enough
• Plurk.com: "Karma" and Community
• 'Namespace' your <body> tags
• Embedding SVG in (X)HTML