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.

202312091511 There is no such thing as sacred code

All code is changeable. All code can be suspect. All developers can change any code with enough time and knowledge. 202312091509 There are no final architectures.

In organizations, we should strive for strong ownership of code on teams while encouraging people to contribute to other teams' projects when needed. Collaboration and quality of code goes up when we don't tell people that this code is "not their problem" or "that other team's responsibility".

Why would we want to block progress on code by requiring specific people to be the only ones to make the changes? Certainly owners should be involved or consulted at some point, but if someone writes a good PR, then those owners should accept it.