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.

202501030111 To emacs or not to emacs

So I learned to code with text editors and random IDEs that we were forced to use in school. I got a job, used Sublime for a long time, and then spent a good part of a decade in VS Code. Recently, I used neovim for about a year, and now Zed for a few months.

But I’m once again feeling the siren song of “the perfect setup”. Emacs and org-mode and mail clients and browsers in the editor all seems so alluring. Bringing everything under one roof with a text-based interface just feels... ideal?

This might be a deep rabbit hole.