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.

202204272307 Code that changes together should live together

A simple concept that drives good code organization and ensures we’re abiding by the principles that 202204272308 Modules should be highly cohesive and 202204272309 Modules should be loosely coupled.

If changing one piece of code requires another piece of code to change:

They should be in the same module or else they would have low cohesion and high coupling.
They would require less mental bandwidth to understand if they were physically near each other in the filesystem.
We will be less likely to forget to update one piece when updating the other if they’re near each other and part of the same module.