About Lyza Danger Gardner
Biography and Overview
Hi! I’m Lyza. I’m a developer and human, forest dweller of Vermont. I’m originally from Portland, Ore., co-founder of Cloud Four. I’m a generalist with an abiding love for the Web.
I enjoy figuring things out and blazing new trails in the areas of web-connected devices, web standards, accessibility and emerging browser APIs. I especially like writing, speaking and teaching about technology.
I’ve written for A List Apart, Smashing Magazine, Net Magazine and O’Reilly, among others, and am currently nearing completion of a new book: JavaScript on Things (Manning).
Collected Works
Scrapbook
Latest Community Adventures and Coverage
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Oliver Lindberg curates this compendium of different ways to keep abreast of the technical-change insanity; my thoughts can be found in Section 2.
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Yay! What Comes Next is the Future, Matt Griffin’s documentary about the history of the web, has been released. I’m lucky to have been part of the project!
Holy cow! I had the honor of being featured in June, 2016’s edition of Net Magazine.
Chatting with Scott Hanselman about Arduinos, JavaScript, Johnny-five and the host-client setup.
Generate San Francisco has been announced! I’m speaking there on July 15, 2016 about how Everyone Else is So Clever.
In this Smashing Magazine article, I attempt to boil down the details of the service worker API into an applied, practical example.
I had the opportunity to contribute my own blurb to A List Apart‘s compendium of future-looking themes for 2016.
Wow! I’m all kinds of honored to be included in this list of 50 tech women to follow on Twitter.
A compendium of Tweets about women in tech giving keynotes. Some lovely and kind mentions of my talk at View Source.
An A List Apart column about the everyday cognitive challenge of choosing the best path on the web of the moment.”
An article I wrote admitting to my own personal Kryptonite: Client-side JavaScript packaging and dependency management.
Jeremy has thoughtful coverage of EdgeConf 5 London, and some kind words for my participation. I am honored!
Columbus, Ohio, women-in-tech blogger Lauren Kinsey attended Web Design Day 2015 in Pittsburgh, where I was lucky enough to speak this year.
An article on A List Apart about mentorship and how it can make one feel naive and nervous. Also about re-learning to ride a motorcycle.
The Australia-based not-for-profit accessibility advocacy organization Access iQ did a Q&A with me about a talk on accessibility I delivered in Stockholm, Sweden at the Funka Accessibility Days conference.
During the spring of 2015, I focused on accessibility concerns. This article on A List Apart tackles one teeny part of the picture: ARIA landmark roles.
Media
Publications, Videos, and More
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Here’s a repository of all of the source material from my Pragmatist’s Guide to Service Worker talk at Smashing Conf NYC 2017 as well as copious notes. (Photo credit: Marc Thiele, Flickr)
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I wrote a case study about the roller-coaster adventures of testing the web as a platform and finding a decades-old browser bug in the process.
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“Everyone Else is So Clever”, a presentation at Generate San Francisco, June, 2016.
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As co-host, I got to have fun moderating this panel (among other things!) at Responsive Field Day in Portland. Videos available for all talks and panels at the conference site.
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I was lucky enough to get to participate in this wild caper with a bunch of smartypants folks. I contributed an absurd chapter about how to make an indoor sundial.
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Challenging and amazing: moderating the progressive enhancement panel at Edge Conf 5 in London.
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Video from my talk at Responsive Day Out 3 in Brighton, UK.
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I worked with Akamai and some talented animators on a short film about mobile web performance, specifically latency.
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I joined smart panelists Jeff Lembeck and Susan Robertson, along with moderator Rachel Andrew, to do an hourlong webcast about the ins and outs of CSS pre- and post-processors.
