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.

202405051458 Mobile Content Width

I’d argue that there’s a greater chance that a website on mobile will have the wrong max width than the right one. These content overflows change scrolling — normally a 1 dimensional action up and down – into a fiddly, annoying 2D action.

A small amount of overflow can be fine because a lot of devices allow you to use the "zoom out" gesture to "lock" the screen to the full width. But that doesn't always work, and if the full width is very wide, the actual content becomes unreadably small.

It’s not that hard to do this correctly!

Scribbling furiously on my todo list to check every page in my site for this error to not look like a hypocrite 😬