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.

202602022023 Complexity

A staggeringly large topic to be sure. This note does not aim to be comprehensive.

In 202602021747 A Philosophy of Software Design, John Ousterhout defines complexity in software systems in the following way.

Complexity is anything related to the structure of a software system that makes it hard to understand and modify.¹

Ousterhout, J. K. (2021). A philosophy of software design (Second edition) (pp 5.). Yaknyam Press. ↩

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