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.

202408221304 Desolation tries to colonize you

[W]hen you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.¹

There’s a certain appeal to the abyss, but 202408232359 The abyss gazes back. We must be cautious of the allure of desolation and the ways that it can overtake our minds and souls like a slow creeping swamp fungus swallowing a landscape on the sea by the lighthouse.

VanderMeer, Jeff. Annihilation. First Edition. Southern Reach Trilogy 1. (pp. 6). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. ↩