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.

202201101943 The fundamental irony of many poor decisions

If we can choose to do things (like getting more sleep) that are objectively better than the alternative (being more tired and less healthy for little or no benefit), then why don't we do those things?

It's completely within our power and control to make better choices and be the people that we want to be.

Maybe one reason we make these types of bad decisions is 202109251155 Desire vs expected outcome in decision making. Another probable piece is that immediacy/present bias and hyperbolic discounting. #thread