Kevin Gorski

Investing Tools I Use

Not necessarily an endorsement, some links include my affiliate code, more about investing as an individual in future posts! Wealthfront – Robo-advisor that takes your risk tolerance and other preferences and automatically diversifies your investment across multiple categories of asset. Also includes features like small loans using your investments as collateral,

Time and Software

There are few things more frustrating in building and using software than an awkward and error-prone system. No such system is as commonly encountered as time. I’m not the first person to point this out, but I’d like to contribute a series of questions that might help to

Software Decay

Every time you play a song from your digital source of choice the bits representing that song are the same as they were on release day, but those bits also represent a series of tradeoffs made in the course of recording and reproducing that sound. In the meantime, the world

Blocked

The stress from working full bore toward an achievable goal has a very specific feeling to it. It can burn and it can leave you tired, but because it's cut with the relief or satisfaction of appreciable progress and the potential for growth it's not entirely draining. With time to

JavaScript

Get More From jQuery Promises

Note: jQuery promises are probably not what you want to use at this point (January, 2016). Look into ES2015 promises or libraries that conform to that spec. Intro: Promises and deferred objects were introduced to jQuery way back in version 1.5 as part of a re-write of the AJAX

CYRIN

CYRIN In The Browser

In order to rate the readability of text on a web page, Can You Read It Now has to do all of the following: Get access to the page contents Find the text to be analyzed Get the displayed style of each piece of text Calculate ratings for each aspect

CYRIN

CYRIN Metrics Part 2

Continuing our exploration of typographic terminology used by CYRIN and how its scores are calculated: Justification Left-justified text is most natural to read for most text. The justification of text describes how it will be aligned to the edges of your page, which in turn will determine how words will

CYRIN

CYRIN Metrics Part 1

Typography has a rich history of wide, specific and sometimes confusing terminology. Today I’m going to focus on terms related to readability that are important to understanding why CYRIN recommends what it does, so we can get by with a much smaller set. Font Size A good default font

CYRIN

Typography & Can You Read It Now?

Typography can be a subtle art. Type is in front of us all day in one form or another, but it can take extreme examples of high- or low-quality typography to spur us to think about type. Like most arts, the more you think about it, the more you notice