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.

202410220101 The Final Edition of Embedded Muse

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After 27 years, The Embedded Muse, an awesome programming newsletter focused on embedded systems issued its 500th and final edition. Its editor Jack Ganssle recently retired and is winding the newsletter down as part of getting to full retirement. Fittingly, the final issue has some really nice reflections on industry, programming careers, and life.

It's always a little sad to see things like these wind down on the internet. In the age of the enshittification of the internet, I value places like The Embedded Muse, where real people publish real thoughts and insights for others to enjoy and learn from and that facilitate forming genuine human connections. Obviously, change is the only constant and Jack should take his well deserved retirement, but that doesn't mean I won't miss it.