In the spirit of the personal web and discovery, I finally got round to adding the site to the IndieWeb Webring. It's only taken me a few ... years 🤣
I was a bit stuck for where to put it but eventually opted for in the menu tray:
I always enjoy hitting the 'next' link on a webring and not having a clue where it will take me.
Yesterday, Chris Coyier mentioned a proposal to auto-size textareas based on their content using just CSS:
textarea {
field-sizing: normal;
}Somewhat coincidentally, OTD yesterday showed that, in 2020, I added a JavaScript solution to auto-size textareas for the custom posting form in the old WordPress blog.
What's curious is that I obviously forgot about that and used completely different code to achieve the same result in (b)log-In.
The CSS solution is only in Chrome Canary for now (with the right flag enabled) but it will be great if it gets wider support. I primarily use Chromium based browsers (Brave on mobile, Arc on Mac) so will be happy if it just gets support in these, even if flags are required. It will mean I can rip out some clumsy JavaScript and keep things simpler.
It is very much a day of mixed emotions. When we got Roxie a month ago we were happy to have gotten Jac a friend but, as the weeks went by, it became obvious that the people we got her from had lied to us.
A big clue was them blocking my wife on the Pets4Homes website the day after we picked her up. They were supposed to be sending us the medical and vaccination records but obviously couldn't be bothered or there was something they didn't want us to know. In any event, it meant having to get all of her vaccinations done again as we had no information on what she'd already had.
Roxie was described as being brilliant with other dogs but, as time went on, it became apparent that this wasn't the case. She would be very jealous if Jac was getting any attention and constantly barge him out of the way or go for him.
So, we have had to say goodbye and have given her to another family to love.
When she was getting all the attention, Roxie could be a lovely dog but it seems she needs to be in a single dog household where she is the focus. It just wasn't fair on her or Jac to try to force the issue.
We didn't take anything for her, recouping the money we spent wasn't a priority. We just wanted her to be in a home where she could thrive. Hopefully that can now happen.
I took Jac for a walk and had one of those moments where realisation just kicks in.
It's been obvious for a while that the days are shorter and the nights drawing in (we're past the Autumn equinox after all) but I noticed that it was dark – truly dark.
A thought came to mind, unbidden:
A breeze blows up. An autumnal chill makes itself known – born of, and borne by, that breeze.
Can't believe it's October tomorrow.