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.

202312111413 Seniority is transient and relative

Perhaps a better way to describe this is that expertise is transient and relative. But when we phrase it like this, it becomes self-evident. Of course expertise is related to a specific area and time. An expert C programmer in the 1970s would look a lot different than an expert C programmer today. Similarly, we must remember that "seniority" — which is inherently a slippery term — is relative to individual systems, tools, times, organizations, and more.¹

Furthermore, we must 202106241524 Sharpen the saw and grow to retain, increase, and expand our areas of expertise. Id est 202208211352 There is no shortcut to learning and 202304031233 Repeated success requires adaptation.

Mancuso, S. (2015). The software craftsman: Professionalism, pragmatism, pride (pp. 6). Prentice Hall. ↩