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.

202308141538 It's your life

Never forget that your life is yours. You alone have agency in it. We all have the power to build the life we want, live the life we want, and change reality to reflect our will. It's a deep, dreadful, awful, wonderful, life-affirming, joyous, humanistic responsibility and we must never forget it. You have the 202407010952 Freedom and Responsibility to live.

202109060833 Sapere Aude and seize the day. Live your life to the fullest. Get out there and experience the world. Experience other people. Take advantage of your short time here.

See 202307282003 An Ode as a poetic example of the idea that we alone have agency and the power to make the changes we want and build the future we imagine. Also 202208221306 In the Desert and 202210141736 Ozymandias.