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.

202411192241 Two cool tools

#microblog #link

Julia Evans recently started a microblog section just like this one on my site for many of the same reasons I have one. She calls hers TIL and it has more of an emphasis on being a place to record the small pieces of (actually useful) info that she’d usually post to Twitter and eventually lose.

Looking through the initial list that she has there, I found 2 cool tools to keep my own record of here:

dmate for language agnostic db migrations and schema management.
diffdiff for nice-looking, in-browser diffing of arbitrary text.