John

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Markdown, Homebrewery, and Tables

An illustrated graphic that shows a set of 4 tables stacked on each other. The drawing is abstract with skewed perspectives.

In this post I would like to talk about Tables in the Homebrewery because not only are they useful in homebrews but also because of how the Homebrewery takes a few steps outside of conventional Markdown with a custom extension of the table syntax. I’ll start with the most basic of tables using standard Markdown Markdown, Homebrewery, and Tables

CSS Variables in the Homebrewery

An abstract graphic with a gradient background. In the foreground rounded rectangles stand in for lines for code.

Recently someone on Discord was asking about how CSS Variables work which seemed like a good topic to cover on the blog. CSS Variables are a way to carry a defined property value to other properties across your style sheet. You define your variable with a value, and then you can use that variable elsewhere. CSS Variables in the Homebrewery

2 New Color Palettes

In the last week I have read about and tried two new color palette tools: Poline and oklch.com. Both offer alternative methods of thinking about colors and easy to use tools for exploring those methods.