How to make spacing and appearance fully customizable while also making sure direct manipulation of things like size and position stay functional? AND hopefully avoid introducing "modes"?

We've got nesting.

Starting to figure out drop zones with dnd-kit.

Nice little boxes in a grid (the necessary foundation for something weirder).

Trying out style paint for components, piggybacking off Tailwind.

CSS Paint - paint using brushes defined in CSS.

https://css-paint.constraint.systems

CSS painting a dog

Getting closer on the CSS Paint design. Dropped the retro theme for now.

CSS paintings

More CSS paint work, with reordering support and some retro borders.

More CSS paint experiments.

CSS paint, maybe

Almost done with the bare-bones user account and place creation features for the div and CSS building blocks app.

More work on setting up a system of building blocks using divs, text fields, and CSS.

Div structure.

Blocks.

Containers.

I keep bouncing off ideas for the next Constraint Systems thing, this isn't quite it... but maybe near.

Some early work on integrating css.gui with Sprout. Getting cautiously excited about the possibilities here.

From: https://github.com/components-ai/css.gui

Freeform canvas + freeform UI.