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Tiffany B. Brown
Personal blog · tiffanybbrown.comprogrammingweb
Tiffany B. Brown's personal blog at tiffanybbrown.com covers programming and web. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tiffany B. Brown's posts on CSS stacking contexts and the box model, and her notes on hosting static sites on AWS S3, CloudFront and Certificate Manager for HTTPS.
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What Hacker News says?
I'd say a good start would be: * Stacking context [1] — how individual layers interact with eachother to form a layout. * Box model [2] — the most important properties that give an individual element its dimensions. [1]: https://tiffanybbrown.com/2015/09/css-stacking-contexts-wtf/ [2]: https://css-tricks.com/the-css-box-model/
Comment linking /2015/09/css-stacking-contexts-wtf/
on “How Browsers Lay Out Web Pages”Submitted Bond Risks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThinking of moving a static site to S3 + CloudFront + AWS Certificate Manager with the purpose of enabling HTTPS for the site. Seems like CloudFront does not support index document even if you've enabled it on S3 ( https://tiffanybbrown.com/2016/01/aws-certificate-manager-s3... ). You can't have URL such as https://example.com/about/ . Instead need to specifically use URL https://example.com/about/index.html . Will…
Comment linking /2016/01/aws-certificate-manager-s3-cloudfront-urls/index.html
on “Open source template for building static web sites with Prismic.io and AWS S3”