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.

202412181227 Bartosz Ciechanowski and the promise of the web

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Bartosz Ciechanowski's blog is one of the best blogs or even websites at all on the internet. His explanations of interesting things from first principles is a master class on teaching and learning. The amazing visualizations are simple, no-dependency javascript files utilizing WebGL and other modern web tech. The markup is clean, and despite each article being lengthy with interactive visualizations, runs on my phone without breaking a sweat.

This is what the web should be. This is how technology can enhance education.