Notes from along the way

The blog.

Things I’ve built, things I’ve learned, and a few problems I generously created for myself. Newest first, so you can judge my progress in reverse.

2026

Hey, remember me?

Three years, a new coat of paint, and a whole new collection of technical hyper-fixations. It's been a little over three years since I last posted anything here. Apparently, my…

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2023

I'm back!

Wow, it's been awhile! My role at work changed, so I haven't been able to update the site at all. In fact, I had messed up the DNS records, so it wasn't even up for awhile! I use…

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2022

Finally, progress!

Progress! Well, not yet, but it's coming! I haven't update this blog in a bit, but I've still been working on the site itself in the meantime. I don't really like that, at the time…

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Small wins are still wins!

Sometimes you have to celebrate the small wins too, ya know. For instance, your friend and humble narrator just managed to get a perfect score on Lighthouse, a Chrome Developer tool…

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Things I'm working on now

Okay, so I know that I complained about how much accessibility added to my HTML in my last post, but it's my current ADHD fueled hyper-fixation. A few things that I'm working on…

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SEO and A11y

One of the few things about this page that I've actually taken pride in was the minimal amounts of HTML that was used to throw it together. Search Engine Optimization and Accessibility…

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Whoa! You're seeing this on my website!

My blog is live! I may have been a little too overenthusiastic during my last post. As it turns out, I hadn't quite cracked the code (low quality pun intended) on the Blogger API just…

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I did it!

Your friend and humble narrator finally figured out how to use the Blogger API to import stuff over to an HTML file on his site and, in the process, wrote his first successful forEach…

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This is harder than I thought!

Figuring out how to use REST APIs is harder than I thought. I wanted to keep a blog to have a record of how this process was going, but I didn't want to use VS Code for every post and…

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My First Blog Post!

Hi! Welcome to my first attempt at putting together a website in over two decades! I suppose that I’ll use this blog to kind of catalog my experience putting this together for now…

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