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.

202308271055 Be a jack of all trades

Along with 202308141518 Be a pack rat for little facts, we should become capable at many things. We should try to be familiar with many different systems, languages, technologies, paradigms, etc. The value of being broadly capable may be less than apparent at first, given our current jobs might require us to only specialize in one tool. But when taking a wide view #thread of things, we realize that all of the things we learn and can do will influence our specialized actions as well. Breakthroughs rarely come from specialists #thread.¹

Epstein, D. (2019). Range: How generalists triumph in a specialized world (1st ed.). Macmillan. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41795733-range ↩