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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.

202204291514 Interface segregation

The interface segregation principle of the 202204272244 SOLID design principles for software development, which states:

Clients should not be forced to depend upon interfaces that they do not use.¹

Or alternatively

Many client-specific interfaces are better than one general-purpose interface.¹

In other words, large interfaces with many methods that are only loosely coupled should be broken down into smaller 202204291512 Single responsibility interfaces so that consumers can implement or depend on only the behavior that they need to and no more. This should, in theory, make the system less coupled and easier to refactor.

Wikipedia contributors. (2022). SOLID. In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SOLID&oldid=1069309351 ↩ ↩²