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.

202109251124 Golden age software

This is the best software in the best of circumstances. The team maintaining it is the team who designed and implemented it; they are intimately familiar with its quirks, the problems it was designed to solve (and not to solve), and the constraints it was supposed to run in. This software is still only solving the problems it should in the constraints that it was built for.¹

Larson, W. (2019, July 28). Reclaim unreasonable software. Irrational Exuberance. https://lethain.com/reclaim-unreasonable-software/ ↩