Curtis Gibby is a husband, father, programmer and journalist, in that order. (At least I hope that's the priority list, but once in a while it gets messed up.) The content of this site mostly reflects the first and second parts of that list. You can check out my web and journalism work on my resume. Read more on the About Me page.

I've used Firefox's Stylish plugin for years to get rid of stuff that I don't want to see on all kinds of web sites.  Once you know how CSS works, the plugin makes it easy to tweak the look ... Read More

At work, I use the excellent FPDF library to write PDF files.  But I couldn't find any way to automatically make the text as large as possible to fit into a given space.  So I wrote the following function ... Read More

I've been interested in web fonts for a while now, so I was rather excited when the Google Font Directory was released last month. Am I the only one who's not really impressed with it? Don't get me wrong -- ... Read More

Last week, we were content with the two cars we had, planning to put all three of our kids in the back of Sarah's Matrix when the baby was born.    We knew we liked Toyota Siennas in general, since ... Read More

Since I built this web site, I've taken it as a source of pride that I created all of the major functionality from scratch: blog, pictures, links, and so forth.  I learned that I could do it on my ... Read More