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.

202501061015 Post hoc ergo propter hoc

Post hoc ergo propter hoc, meaning "after this, therefore because of this", is a logical fallacy that assigns causality to sequential events. For example, event A happens then event B happens, therefore A causes B.

Cum hoc ergo propter hoc, meaning "with this, therefore because of this", is a similar logical fallacy that applies to events that happen together rather than sequentially.

Both of these fallacies are similar to (maybe subsets of) 202501061020 Correlation does not equal causation.