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Designing furniture using the CSS grid (2023)

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Re: Designing furniture using the CSS grid (2023)

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Oh man, this is up there with the story I heard of the guy who used Excel to draw a floor plan. He just split and merged cells as needed and used different border lines to delineate the different wall types. Once again proving that Excel can be used for nearly anything whether you should or not. Solid work on this, and I love that it takes advantage of the browser to rejigger things without having to redraw everythin…

Myst, once the biggest-selling PC game ever, began as a prototype built in Hypercard.

Re: Designing furniture using the CSS grid (2023)

#33

A better title would be "designing the front-facing layout of rectangular-only cabinets", and that's generous. I find this an odd exercise in using something ill suited for a purpose in an extra complicated way, just to solve an already solved problem. Do you want to quickly throw together a kitchen design idea? IKEA has a full-featured tool just for that. Want something lower-level? Start with Tinkercad, Sketchup, a…

It's not always about solving the problem efficiently. There's a lot to be learned from doing things unconventionally.
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