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.

202304102024 Great people have a great deal of drive to do great things

Richard Hamming once asked his boss how one of his colleagues had accomplished so much over his career. His boss replied,

You would be surprised how much you would know if you had worked as hard as he has for as many years.¹

It's evident that great people have a great deal of drive to do great things. 202208211352 There is no shortcut to learning and putting in the hard work, day-in and day-out will lead to compounding gains (202304102048 Compounding Interest, 202109060836 Knowledge should accumulate).

Hamming, R. W. (2020). The art of doing science and engineering: Learning to learn. Stripe Press. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53349431-the-art-of-doing-science-and-engineering ↩