https://mclamb.orgThings learned and built along the way.https://mclamb.org/blog/2026/10/hey-remember-me/https://mclamb.org/blog/2026/10/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 approach to maintaining a blog has been roughly the same as my approach to cleaning out the garage: I'll get around to it eventually. It would seem that eventually has arrived! Well, for the blog. I'll get to the garage, I…Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:35:04 -0400https://mclamb.org/blog/2023/03/im-back/https://mclamb.org/blog/2023/03/im-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 Google Workspace for email, Blogger (where this is actually being typed up and posted) and a few other things, but Github and Netlify to host and present the site. When I switched my DNS over to Netlify, I left my MX…Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:28:00 -0400https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/12/finally-progress/https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/12/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 this is being written, the main page is just a long list of every post I've made, so I'm making an archive page and a sidebar with links to older posts. I hate that my "Contact Me" page looks like it was ripped right…Sat, 17 Dec 2022 18:29:00 -0500https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/12/small-wins-are-still-wins/https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/12/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 that measures a few things (like speed, accessibility, etc) about your website.Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:09:00 -0500https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/12/things-im-working-on-now/https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/12/things-im-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: Character spacing Increasing the space between characters makes everything easier to read for folks with dyslexia. I don't think I'm going to space things out quite as far as is suggested by the Web Content Accessibility…Thu, 08 Dec 2022 14:11:00 -0500https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/12/seo-and-a11y/https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/12/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 threw that out the window. 51 out of 69 lines of the source code for the page that you're reading this on is all SEO, A11y and Google Analytics. Why does Apple need 9 different icons to be able to show my pretty…Tue, 06 Dec 2022 21:12:00 -0500https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/12/updates-not-worth-mentioning-being-mentioned-anyway/https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/12/updates-not-worth-mentioning-being-mentioned-anyway/Minor site tweaks that I think almost add up to something: I added a gradient to the bar at the top of the screen, then rounded the corner to it and the links on the right side of the screen. I also added a "logo" to the top bar using a Google Web Font. That was my first time using a web font! That was so far from being a thing twenty-some-odd years ago when I last made an attempt at web…Sun, 04 Dec 2022 11:30:00 -0500https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/12/whoa-youre-seeing-this-on-my-website/https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/12/whoa-youre-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 yet. I could get it to work in CodePen , the site I use to work on this during my free time at work, but couldn't get it to work once it was deployed. I ended up rewriting it to avoid pulling the Google API…Fri, 02 Dec 2022 21:34:00 -0500https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/11/i-did-it/https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/11/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 loop! Now, I won't sit here and tell you that I'm a genius or anything. I will strongly imply it, though. I'm only mildly ashamed to admit that I went crawling to Will, the gentleman from my first post, for help…Wed, 30 Nov 2022 17:04:00 -0500https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/11/this-is-harder-than-i-thought/https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/11/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 I wanted to get a better understanding of API integration. Keeping a blog at Blogger.com and using their API to keep my website's main page updated with my most recent posts seemed like a no brainer. The only…Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:23:00 -0500https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/11/my-first-blog-post/https://mclamb.org/blog/2022/11/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, then, when I’m satisfied with how everything has come together, it will either go untouched or will turn into whatever I think is interesting at the time. This all started because of a coworker, Will. Will put together…Thu, 24 Nov 2022 11:52:00 -0500