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.

202412191631 Bluesky

#microblog #link

I’ve been following Bluesky for a while now and hoping it might gain enough traction to fill the Twitter shaped hole in my social-media-less life. It seems to be doing a really good job picking up what Twitter abandoned and flushed down the toilet with the Musk acquisition. And better yet, it seems to be doing a lot better job with a better mission and exit strategy that Twitter ever had. I’ve also been following the tech behind it and the AT Protocol which both seem cool.

So I took the leap and created an account. You can follow me under this domain, @mkalvas.com.

As an aside, I really like the idea of using domains for verification and syndication — very cool idea. Hopefully it’ll help me find more awesome personal websites too.