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.

202204272244 SOLID design principles

The SOLID mnemonic are five design principles for object oriented programming. They ideas were first introduced by Robert C. Martin in his 2000 paper Design Principles and Design Patterns.

202204291512 Single responsibility — There should never be more than one reason for a class to change.
202204272242 Open-closed — Software entities should be open for extension but closed for modification.
202204291513 Liskov substitution — Functions that use pointers or references to base classes must be able to use objects of derived classes without knowing it.
202204291514 Interface segregation — Many client-specific interfaces are better than one general-purpose interface.
202204291515 Dependency inversion — Depend upon abstractions, not concretions.