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.

202611011131 The Ballmer Peak

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I've always been a fan of the classic XKCD about the Ballmer peak because there's a well-known truth to it. The numbers on the chart in the comic are clearly wrong, but most developers I know (who drink alcohol at all) would agree that a small amount lowers your inhibition and gets that 202109091125 Free association of thought flowing enough to get into a creative 202109091123 Flow state. Well, the geniuses from the Association of Computational Heresy behind SIGBOVIK did an empirical study in their 2024 proceedings that corroborates this fact. This finding should be given all the attention and rigor that the SIGBOVIK name carries.

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