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.

202309021620 Important trade-offs have u-curve optimizations

When considering important trade offs, we can see that in many situations graphing the value of the cost or benefit of the two things will vary indirectly, forming an X shaped graph. Therefore, minimizing the total cost in the trade off will be a U shape sitting in the middle above the X. Similarly, maximizing the benefit in a situation might mean leaning fully into one direction.¹

Reinertsen, D. G. (2009). The principles of product development flow: Second generation lean product development (pp. 35). Celeritas Publishing. ↩