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.

202405031530 Joe the Axolotl, Clever Closet, & Demonic Robots - Weird Projects of Tech-Savvy Middle School Girls

Anyone can start a girls who code club and if you have enough people sign up, you can get free resources like lessons, notebooks etc.
Dept of Ed standards alignment
7x more likely to go into STEM than national avg
She led the Otterbein one, it does something a little different than the provided web lessons
Build things “clever closet” and others (had never seen clueless so they thought it was original which is cool)
Pololu 3 Pi Robots pre-built 4 AAA batteries, hokey pokey robot, Rube Goldberg machines, etc
LEGO Robots now, loved those
Game dev

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