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.

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Vitruvius was a Roman architect who lived from c. 80-70 BCE – c. 15 BCE in the first century BCE. He is best known for his writing De Architectura which included the idea that all buildings should have three attributes 202205041105 Firmitas, utilitas, venustas. These principles were widely adopted and shaped the course of Roman architecture. This discussion of perfect proportions in architecture and the human body led to the famous Renaissance drawing of the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci.