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.

202508102224 Fuel for creative thought is everywhere

Creative thought (and problem solving) is fueled by all of our experiences, interactions, and other thoughts.¹ Everything we do and see can be connected in an accumulating way (202109060836 Knowledge should accumulate, 202308271108 Construct hooks for future knowledge) sometimes we’re aware of it (202110231459 Explicit knowledge) and other times we aren’t (202110231457 Tacit knowledge, 202109091125 Free association of thought, 202408021018 Intuition and instinct are implicit knowledge)

Rubin, R., & Strauss, N. (2023). The Creative Act: A Way of Being (pp. 37–39). Penguin Press. ↩