Do Not Repeat Yourself
I’m a slow coder. That’s fine at the moment – it’s not my day job and no one is paying me to do it. I enjoy going step-by-step and seeing the results and tweaking this and that. What I despise doing, though, is over-coding.
One of my more-recent forays into coding found media queries which seemed to be the solution for responsive web design. At least that was the use-case, anyway. It never sat right with me. Create re-written sections of code for every possible window size and layout direction? Oh, screw that.
Luckily, it seems, with a little thought (and a few new developments in CSS), people have gotten on board with other ideas, like using min(), max(), clamp() (or max(x, min(y, z)) anyway), and mercifully minmax() in grid.
I, for one, code outside-in, and the layout is extremely important for me to get right. (Who needs content, right?) Grid has just been amazing.
Site update: Not much has changed in this short time with my birthday intervening hiccup, but there’s been some formatting inspired by skeleton.css and some data importing with my plants database in a .csv – never done that one before.
Post by Josh on 13 Jul 2020.
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