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.

202110181247 Humans can't multi-task

Humans are notoriously terrible multitaskers. We have no ability to genuinely concentrate on two things at once. Focusing on a single task at a time and fully committing our attention to it is far more productive than trying to do multiple things at once.

Studies show that our performance on tasks completed during multitasking is much lower than when we focus on one at a time. They also show that regular multitasking can decrease your ability to focus over time.¹

Brain and Spine Team. (2021, March 10). The Science is Clear: Why Multitasking Doesn’t Work. Cleveland Clinic. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/science-clear-multitasking-doesnt-work/ ↩