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.

202408222021 Have fun and be terrified

Have fun and be terrified. I can do that.¹

A quote about quitting your job and striking out on your own, or more broadly, daring to do something and put your skin in the game. We should be willing to be terrified and step out of our comfort zone to achieve great things. Things that are worth doing are usually hard to do. Get used to feeling uncomfortable and enjoy the humanity of our lives. We don't have to optimize and sanitize our lives. We can enjoy the messy nature of failure.

Suresh, N. (2024, August 21). Quitting My Job For The Way Of Pain [Blog]. Ludicity. https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/quitting-my-job-for-the-way-of-pain/ ↩

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