Tech — Work — Ramblings

by Mike Kalvas

I see you're not using JavaScript (which is awesome!) on one of my pages that uses it to provide a better experience. If you see something not working right, please let me know. My site should work exactly the same without it apart from any exceptions noted here.

I use prism.min.js to do syntax highlighting. It clocks in at 23kb total in size. Since the majority of the writing I do involves coding, I personally find this to be a worthwhile trade off. If you choose to keep this disabled, rest assured, the code examples are still there, they just may have some extra whitespace and obviously no syntax highlighting.

I do no tracking at all and am a zealot about keeping my pages as small as possible. If you're reading a page of mine that transfers more than about 250kb over the wire (including my most gratuitous indulgence — fonts) I've messed up.

So, if you'd like to have a slightly richer experience, consider enabling javascript for my site and I promise your trust won't be misplaced.

CodeMash 2020 - Review

A More Formal Report on a Conference

A review of the sessions I attended, what I learned, and how I liked the overall experience of CodeMash 2020.

#blog #tech #work

CodeMash graphic, I survived CodeMash 2020

Short Post

I said in my live blog post from CodeMash that I was going to do a follow up to the conference and review the experience. Since there were other people at Beam interested in writing about their experiences too, we decided to pool our effort as a team and write a single post for the Beam Engineering Blog. Because it was co-authored by other Beamers on Beam time, I'm not sure if I should cross-post it in its entirety. Instead, here's a link to the finished product, Yet Another CodeMash Blog Post. Go check it out.

On a final note, if you're on the fence about CodeMash, I'd strongly recommend going. I had a great time and would definitely go back in the future.