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.

202508112254 When flowing, keep going

When flowing, keep going.¹

Rick Rubin on harnessing inspiration. In particular, one should try to take as much advantage of inspiration as possible but one should not rely on it to accomplish anything. He also discusses 202109091123 Flow state and 202109091124 Anti-flow state in this light. These states are not the same as inspiration but are similar and all overlapping in some regards.

Rubin, R., & Strauss, N. (2023). The Creative Act: A Way of Being (pp. 130). Penguin Press. ↩