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.

202209121344 Mobilis in mobili

Mobilis in mobili, meaning moving in a moving thing, moving in the moving element, or changing in a changing medium.

This is the motto of Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. It is seen on his flag on the Nautilus as well as the one that he plants on the South Pole.¹ It has a literal interpretation of moving through the ocean waters, but also of moving politically through humanity and geo-politics as a revolutionary attempting to move the tides of nations.

Verne, J. (2015). 20,000 leagues under the sea (L. P. Mercier, Trans.). Starbooks Classics Collection. (Original work published 1870) ↩