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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

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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

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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

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    Kevin Gorski
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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

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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

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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

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    Kevin Gorski
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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

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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

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