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.

202312161343 You don’t do Agile

Agile is an adjective. You can’t do agile: you either are agile or are not.¹ More broadly, agile consultants, processes, systems, and the like are fundamentally not agile because they are prescriptive and not flexible or reactive.

For all the effort in the 202109061338 Software Engineering industry to codify things that will automatically make you agile, it’s simply not possible. It’s a simple relationship between feedback and the autonomy and capability to act on that feedback. Get more feedback and treat all instances as individual instances in individual contexts. Remember that 202205031219 Agility is not equal to speed.

Mancuso, S. (2015). The software craftsman: Professionalism, pragmatism, pride (pp. 11). Prentice Hall. ↩