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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
