Tara Vancil

Squoosh is one of the best pieces of software I use. I'm sad to see that Google is no longer investing in maintaining the CLI. www.npmjs.com/package/@squ...

What a shame to see delightful and reliable software turn into this

Hey remember when basic iOS features such as typing worked?

Anyway let me know if you need a second set of eyes

I have sent about 100 messages like this. This is the curse of building on the web. There is no good way to debug it btw. You have to learn all the ways safari diverges from web standards and work around it.

This is the sweetest pic! You both look great

Whoa! I look forward to giving this a try. The provider I use is a pain in the 🍑

I did in fact heal up in time, and it was my favorite round of the season. Gorgeous late-September conditions, nobody on the course, creative approach shots, and I played for essentially free thanks to a friend who works at Boyne. You can't beat it.

Zach Koerner Wins the 2022 Northern Michigan Open Congratulations to Zach Koerner of Laingsburg for winning the 75th annual Northern Michigan Open.

I watched Zach win my club's big tournament a few years ago. He's quite the golfer! cheboygangolf.com/blog/zach-ko...

My kid gave me HFMD. I have a tee time Sunday at the Donald Ross Memorial. Please let me be healed and able to hold a golf club by then.

Subgrid: how to line up elements to your heart’s content When Grid became widely available across browsers in 2017, it was an absolute game changer.

Wrote a little thing about subgrid that I hope you find helpful. Short and sweet, with nice, clean code 🥰 webkit.org/blog/17339/s...

Around here, whitetail deer spend a lot of time in the water during summer months when mosquitoes and flies are rampant. Don’t know about other species. Mud?

Updating DNS records has never once been straightforward in this situation. Never. These two companies make sure that once you opt-in to their website builder, it's difficult to leave. They bury DNS settings in the UI and sometimes even require a phone call with support...to update a DNS record!

I operate a web agency and routinely find myself in this situation: a client has purchased and then launched their website through one of these two services. They eventually realize they need a better website, so they hire me.

I have very strong feelings about squ*respace and god*ddy and their toxic practices regarding DNS management :)

A German wirehaired pointer dog snoozing with her paw lazily placed over a macbook keyboard

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Anyway sorry for the rant. I'm all for wolf re-introduction, but that particular org's stance on non-lethal harvest worries me.

A lot of hunters are concerned about elk/deer predation, but coyotes pose a much greater threat, that's just math. And we have open season on those. Farmers are compensated for wolf-related livestock losses, but hunters get zilch if they lose their hunting dog. Obviously this is my chief concern.

But we can't have that until they're federally delisted, and federal delisting is not going to happen because so many people are cuckoo coconuts WOLVES ARE MAGICAL MAGESTIC UNTOUCHABLE. Yes, but we also have to manage them with a clear head like we do with any other species

Our wolf population in Michigan's upper peninsula has recovered and reached carrying capacity, and were recently delisted as endangered at the state level (I know CO is nowhere near this point yet.) We're at the point where MI legitimately may need a wolf harvest season.

Ski all the way. Wolves are the ultimate coolest animal, but organizations that want wolf reintroduction and don't support the eventual management of those populations through lethal means are reckless imo.

Additionally, I am always open to entertaining short-term contracts doing web stuff*

*web stuff = building, instrumenting, or otherwise improving websites

If you have a friend or family member who needs website help - please keep me in mind! They can reach me at tara at northwoods dot digital

Celebrating Three Years of Northwoods Digital

Today marks three years of operating my one-woman web agency! northwoods.digital/blog/celebra...

A baby so tired that she is flopped sideways over her mom’s hip

Took my kid for her first bike ride and apparently being chauffeured around was exhausting work for her

I am wearing golf attire and carrying a golf bag while standing on a tee box. There is a lush green landscape and a full rainbow behind me.

It was particularly beautiful on the golf course today

I’m so glad she’s ok!! She’s braver than I am.

Great pictures! I love the beach one. Babies at the beach is the cutest 😊

There's really no good fix for the root issue, but you can address the symptoms. In this case: a tiny steristrip bandage on my eardrum to reduce the vibrations from my voice and other noises. A stupid cheap & simple fix. I have relief for the first time in a decade. I feel silly for waiting so long.

Follow-up on this: 2 months ago I was finally able to see an ENT. Within 2 min he clocked me as having a patulous eustachian tube. This means that instead of opening and closing normally, my tube stays wide open all the time! Which explains why hearing my own voice was painful