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.

202508192313 You must test an idea to know if it works

The only way to truly know if an idea works is to test it.¹ 202203210830 When your model and reality conflict, reality is always right, which means that the only way to know for sure if an idea (which is just a mental model of a possible thing) works or is good, right, or accurate is to test it in reality.

This also implies that 202508192317 If you want the best, test everything.

Rubin, R., & Strauss, N. (2023). The Creative Act: A Way of Being (pp. 157–159). Penguin Press. ↩