Major Blog Update

Ben Madley, 09 Jul 2020

I started a new job in February and suddenly I’m doing some frontend development (but in a strange mix I’m also doing some machine learning). It’s been a real change and I’ve learned a lot about CSS, Sass and Vue. To celebrate this I’ve done a major refresh on the blog.

The diff on the redesign

The old look

In a message to my former self, here are the things that were super crucial to get my head around:

• The position property (particularly the relative and absolute values)
• Properly using padding and margin instead of overly relying on top/down/left/right
• display: flex (CSS Tricks has amazing content on this)
• Talking to parent components with emit in Vue

Another thing that helped a lot was watching @chrisoncode on twitch. The home page buttons are greatly inspired by one his streams.