Articles by Lyza

Responsive Field Day isn’t that far away now, and we’re ready to tell you about the first speaker topics! Yesenia Perez-Cruz: Design through the Lens of Performance Designing sites that are fast…

Late spring. We are now officially entering the marvelous season in Portland. That means gorgeous weather and cheerful citizens from now well into October. This part of the year is why everyone wants to be…

(This post is for: web developers who have used, or thought about using, a build tool before, are JS-comfy and maybe have noodled around in node.js but wouldn’t, say, feel up to submitting a talk…

We’re growing! We’re searching for an enthusiastic and talented JavaScript and front-end developer to join our team. We’re looking for someone who is crackerjack at JavaScript and the other building blocks of complex HTML5…

A quick, pre-holiday post to mention with excitement the publishing of “Vexing Viewports“, an article on A List Apart that I co-wrote with Peter-Paul Koch (@ppk), Stephanie…

Oh, I am excited! Video from my presentation at Mobilism in Amsterdam has been posted. I’m already excited about Mobilism for next year! In this presentation, “Cutting through the Crap: The Essence of…

Developing on the mobile (or pan-device) web is hard. Maybe too hard. Yeah, kind of too hard sometimes. My days are spent chasing down the vital new frameworks (maybe not so vital, really, in retrospect),…

This past weekend, Jason and I were fortunate enough to participate in the second installment of "Mobilewood", a retreat-like gathering of hardcore mobile web nerds on Cape Cod. Last fall, we gathered in rural…

It’s been a strange few years for the pixel, that unit we love to hate and generally blithely use anyway. First, there is the weird brain-bending device pixel versus CSS pixel math we’re all trying…