Posts tagged 'tech'
This did not end the way I expected.
The Awkward Interlude: Lyza.com 2023
Mar 13, 2024
For several years my pank content machine sat idle, ravenous. Cyclical guilty impulses dogged me: I should do something about my site, I should update my site. Finally, a forcing function.
Lyza.com came back with aplomb from its almost-nothingness in the summer of 2015, decked in pank. It was hand-crafted. Blisteringly fast. Exquisitely tuned. And fundamentally boring for lack of any real content.
I used to say anything to everyone. That ended in the spring of 2011 and I flipped inside myself, pausing for a few years and then reducing my entire site to the minimal thing possible when I couldn't avoid it anymore.
The Beautiful Years: Lyza.com 2010-2011
Feb 28, 2024
For several months in 2009 I developed a feverish hobby: meticulously crafting a visual design for Lyza.com down to the last pixel. Then I applied that lush coat of glamor to my existing content. I call these the Beautiful Years.
I dreaded this post in the series about Lyza.com’s history because I thought I’d be describing the site’s embarrassing Dark Ages, two years when my content wasn’t hosted on my own site, followed by a couple more years of something that looked even less considered than an afterthought. I had it backwards.
With Celeste!: Lyza.com 2003-2005
Feb 16, 2024
Basically I wrote a bunch of blog software. Again. But I still wasn’t calling it that because I was intent on reinventing a galaxy full of wheels. Tada! It’s Celeste! Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
The Early Glimmers: Lyza.com 1997-2003
Feb 15, 2024
The Internet Archive took its first snapshot of Lyza.com on March 31, 2001. I could call the time between 1997 and this 2001 crawl the Dark Ages of Lyza.com, but I don't. Instead, during those years, everything was wonderful and ugly.
Lyza.com Turns 27 this Year
Feb 9, 2024
I registered Lyza.com on the 18th of May, 1997. I don’t know that because I wrote it down, or because it has enough weight with me that I remembered it on its own accord. I know because an ICANN lookup today told me so.
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?
JavaScript Promises in 60 Seconds
Jul 3, 2017
A minute-long excerpt from a recent talk about Service Workers: a whirlwind explanation of JS Promises.
Voltage, Current, Resistance...with Gnomes
Nov 30, 2016
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.
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.
Scampering after Node.js Versions
Dec 8, 2015
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?
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.
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.
My Personal Kryptonite: JavaScript Bundlers
Aug 15, 2015
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.
Writing Tomorrow's CSS Today
Aug 11, 2015
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!
Unafraid of Times New Roman
Jul 29, 2015
In which I save myself from the fripperies of excessive fonts.
Edge Conf London, June 2015
Jul 27, 2015
In which I sweat and moderate a panel, and it is good.