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.

202312091400 Be the exemplar of change

It's hard to argue with working code.

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Creating change is tricky. A good way to go about it is to produce the change you want to see and share that experience widely.¹ If your change is positive or better than the existing way of doing things, then people will see. The evidence of something real and tangible that's already happening is undeniable and you won't get bogged down in theoretical arguments. 202208131431 Everybody loves an existence proof.

Thomas, D., & Hunt, A. (2019). The pragmatic programmer, 20th anniversary edition: Journey to mastery (Second edition) (pp. 9). Addison-Wesley. ↩