Lyza Danger Gardner

My introduction to Adafruit’s family of Feather boards wasn’t auspicious. In fact, it was a comedy of errors. So I was surprised to find an abiding respect for the Feather M0.

The interstitial and intro videos made for conferences don't get a lot of press, but the art production in some is superb. Here are two great examples.

You’re thinking of starting out on a journey to learn about electronics and IoT. Which development platform should you start with?

A minute-long excerpt from a recent talk about Service Workers: a whirlwind explanation of JS Promises.

Understanding Ohm's Law thoroughly changed my whole reality—it's the key to infinite electronics hackery. But I couldn't just let the standard hydraulic-based (water) metaphors be my guide. I had to involve gnomes.

Four months ago, I upped stakes from my hometown and moved thousands of miles to the middle of the forest in Vermont. I took a break from the Web and changed jobs. Everything has changed…or has it?

There are several ways to use JavaScript to control physical objects. Lately I've been doing a lot using a host-client setup and the Johnny-five Node.js framework.

Navigating between merit and diverse inclusivity is profoundly hard. Sometimes I end up on the sad side of the fence.

Opinionated review of the good, the bad and the delusional trends I saw in conferences over the past year.

Everything about Node.js is exponential curves right now. While at Node Interactive here in Portland, my mind has started racing about understanding and managing Node.js versions.

Even when my projects involve a crowd with a size of one (me), I still use git workflow tactics. Is this good practice or an unnecessary monologue?

The month has blurred by; let me capture some things before they float out of my head again!

Max Firtman’s post about iOS 9 Safari technical details contains a lot of stuff to get amped about, but let’s not get so geeked over details that we inadvertently restart a web design arms race.

There are lots of elements in play when trying to make web sites and apps accessible, but correct use of ARIA roles in HTML is straightforward and has big impact.

I guess I shipped a few things at the end of the summer, but now it’s time to find the next biggish thing. Will I be able to emerge from the inspirational doldrums?

Sea canaries, sea otters, the aurora borealis, and the economical joys of a late-summer trip to a high latitude.

There is this question that I’d like to suggest is never useful to ask another developer. I find myself asking it when I talk to other developers, too—I’d like to stop.

I’ve been lamenting about JavaScript bundlers lately, calling this step of our process my “personal Kryptonite.” And yet maybe I’ve been misunderstanding why I’m frustrated.

Did you know that, using CSS transpilers, you can use to-spec CSS of the future, today? Here are some of the magical things I’m using these days.

Jeremy Keith has released videos from the sessions at Responsive Day Out 3 in Brighton. Here is my session!

In which I mention a few things I learned.

In which I save myself from the fripperies of excessive fonts.

In which I am old, and from here.

In which I sweat and moderate a panel, and it is good.