No need to use a high tech blender, when a whisk will do

Originally sent as a newsletter.

Written in 2021, 5 years ago. Tools and advice may have moved on since.

Hello there,

February Sunday Funday streams have been about exploring data visualization for POW!

I started testing out a framework built on top of the library that power most of the advanced visualization you see on the web today, D3.

Then post stream I was like, I am pretty sure this could be done without a heavy-duty framework.

No need to use a high tech blender to mix your pancake batter, when a whisk will do 🥞

The whisk in this scenario being CSS, and more specifically CSS Grid as it lets us position web content within a strict grid structure.

Easier said than done though, as I had no prior experience with CSS Grid.

At some point over the last 10 years it feels like I stopped absorbing new CSS knowledge, I knew enough to customize whatever template, library or framework I was working with.

I have obviously been loosing out. There are so many new and exiting thing in CSS like the Grid and variables and probably lots more I have missed.

Therefore I am eagerly awaiting Josh Camou’s course, CSS for JS devs. His blogpost are always top quality, so I am expecting the course to be as well.

But until then I managed to create a little proof of concept viz that will be improved and added to POW! in March 👇🏼

Have a great week,

Benedicte

📺 Today, on stream, I worked on automating some grunt work for the Fathom Analytics Gatsby Plugin, and I will do so again March 14th.

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