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.

202402251159 Limiting factor

There always will be limits to growth. They can be self-imposed. If they aren't, they will be system-imposed.¹

A limiting factor in a system is the one element that is most important to the overall behavior of the system.¹ For instance, when growing crops if there isn't enough potassium in the soil, your crops won't grow no matter how much nitrogen is available. The next logical conclusion here is that 202402251202 Limiting factors can change.

Meadows, D. H., & Wright, D. (2011). Thinking in systems: A primer (Nachdr.) (pp. 101). Chelsea Green Pub. ↩ ↩²