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.

202204272242 Open-closed

The open/closed principle of the 202204272244 SOLID design principles for software development, which states:

Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification¹

This means that we should be able to extend the behavior without modifying its source code. For example, in the case of classes and inheritance, sub-classes can extend the behavior of a base class by implementing methods without changing the code of the base class. The base class is thus open for extension, but closed to modification.

Wikipedia contributors. (2022). SOLID. In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SOLID&oldid=1069309351 ↩