08 May 2025
I usually try to write these blog posts on a weekend, but with the long weekend and being quite busy throughout it I've had to write this mid-week instead. The long weekend was filled with trips to the garden centre, trips to birthday parties and trips to the football. The trip to the football was the one I probably enjoyed the least, it's hard being a supporter sometimes.
Our solar panels were fully enabled last week and the sunny weather has meant all the graphs were looking good for producing more than we were consuming. Now that things are a bit more overcast the graphs are looking... less good. We don't really mind that, though, we got the panels to reduce our reliance on the grid and to be more eco-friendly. From what I've heard you don't really make that much money selling back to the grid, but sending a bit less money to the electrical supplier is no bad thing.
Last week I had a quite involved conversation with my partner where I insisted that I was using "grid" layout in the CSS for this website, only to find out I'm actually not. I am using some CSS statements that made me think that I was using it - but I actually wasn't. I think the way that CSS and HTML is so forgiving, so even if you specify something incorrect it would produce something that was correct, is probably what confounds software developers about it. It's actually a huge positive, but obviously if you compare them to programming languages where if it isn't correct it won't compile, then I can see why some developers are so confused by web technologies.
This blog post has now been written over two days, with some delicious homemade rhubard crumble to push me over the line, courtesy of my amazing partner. She shared with me some very fun indie websites that have me envious and inspired. I'd like to first redesign the CSS on this website to make full use of grid layout, and maybe even grid templates if I can figure them out, and then do a bit of a redesign of the site structure. I don't seem to have much time these so maybe even that is ambitious - but if not then making it a bit more silly and fun would be a nice target. Lots for me to look forward to, I think!