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.

202308281402 Care about your craft

We feel that there is no point in developing software unless you care about doing it well.

Care about your craft.

Think! about your work.¹

Think about what you're doing. Take pride in what you produce. Take joy in the craft, the puzzle, the mastery that you gain over time. Make code that works for you that other people will see, understand, and be able to work with.

This is a similar, highly overlapping concept to 202308282340 No broken windows. Don't let things slip even a bit, and care that it's all done well.

Thomas, D., & Hunt, A. (2019). The pragmatic programmer, 20th anniversary edition: Journey to mastery (Second edition) (pp. xxi). Addison-Wesley. ↩