A full day of code

I didn't see this one coming.

So as I said yesterday, I ended up taking the day off.

I woke up quite late actually (07:40) and after taking the kids to school and drinking my first coffee, I was at my home office desk at around 08:30.

As I mentioned before, I had scrapped the previous repo and started developing almost from scratch.

Up until the weekend, DfE had a homepage showing some category filters that were just hard-coded html + css. I made them dynamic (now categories, their names and icons are pulled from the database). These are also randomised, just for kicks.

Today, I decided to continue developing this area further. I now wanted to make them clickable and actually take me to their individual pages where I could see all the listings they had.

I also added a css library called [Open Props](https://open-props.style). Right now it is not doing much but helping me consistently apply spacing and sizing uniformly.

I was at it almost all through the day (I had breaks and did other things around the house). But I did it.

The frontend is ugly, I'm not going to lie, but now it just works.

In the coming days I will work a bit on the frontend of things to make them look a tiny bit better.

Today felt good.