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.

202110181203 Be clear about expectations

There is nothing more important in a working relationship than being crystal clear about expectations. If a either person doesn't know what the other expects of them, they cannot succeed. If they can't come to a shared understanding of what the expectations are or should be at all, then there's no hope that anyone will be successful.

In a similar vein, we need to 202106221152 Define success in order to be successful. We need to tell each other what it looks like to be a good working partner and how to succeed in our expectations of each other.