Some links that might be of interest to readers, that I’m not going to write a whole post about but also don’t want to just sit on. Theme Ideas Multi-Stroke Text Effect I used to see that retro multi-stroke text effect quite often and tried to replicate it using the CSS text-stroke property, but the results never … Cuttings №1
How do I best write articles that help readers use the Homebrewery? Well, up until now that meant opening up a new Homebrewery document, writing out some markdown and CSS, copying that into WordPress (the CodePro plugin) and uploading a screenshot of the preview pane to paste into the article to show the result. That’s … New Year, New Editor
The Edit Page is where most of the action happens on the Homebrewery; the page has the heaviest UI with more buttons, forms, menus and other elements than any other page. Most of them today are all treated as unique items. When I started this redesign I wanted to see what components could be combined … HB Redesign: Editor
Taking a look now at the pages that you hope to not see, the Error page and it’s various errors. Hopefully I can make the pages a little less of a bummer to see by steering away from “errors as brew documents” and maybe even adding some additional info to the error message to make … HB Redesign: Error Pages
In this other post I talked about how I am doing a redesign of the front-end of the Homebrewery. There was a lot of preamble in that post, and I’m just going to link to it here. Vault The last post was about the smaller single unit of the Vault page, the ‘card’ that displays … HB Redesign: Vault
I’ve been working on a redesign of the Homebrewery UI for a few months now. I have sort of kept the open Pull Request on Github up to date with where I am at, but I realizing that I have a website related to the Homebrewery where I can talk through it. A few things … HB Redesign: BrewItem
Occasionally this question pops up on the /r/homebrewery subreddit or in Discord: “I don’t want my first sentence to have all caps, how do I remove it?”. The default D&D 5e theme for any new Homebrewery document includes this styling for the first line of the first paragraph after a top level “H1” header, which … Why is the first line all small caps?
Quick housekeeping note: I turned off comments on the blog because it was 100% spam. Likely if you are here, you have received the link actually from me through discord or similar…comment there.
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
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