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.

202109091128 Andy Matuschak

Andy Matuschak is a software engineer who worked on iOS and R&D at Khan Academy. More recently he's working as an independent researcher exploring natively dynamic interfaces and exploratory tools for thinking and learning.

His notes are a great example of a dynamic interface that is quite similar to Obsidian actually. Reading his notes as a reference material has provided plenty of insights that have allowed me to build a structured knowledge management system here. One of the core ideas that's been instrumental to this system is 202109091129 Evergreen notes.