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Designing furniture using the CSS grid (2023)
The story of why and how I developed a tool for designing MDF furniture by writing my own little language that transpiles into a CSS grid layout.
People usually pay specialized professionals (or companies) to design and build this kind of MDF furniture for their houses, and it can go from very cheap to very expensive depending on one’s choices of materials and finishing. This output then gets sent to a factory, which cuts, finishes and delivers the boards and related materials directly to the destination, where it’s usually assembled by people working for the company that designed the furniture. When sharing a design, I didn’t want people opening the page and accidentally pressing keys in the editor, breaking my carefully laid out rectangles and then delivering me a cabinet with giant drawers.
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