Goodbye WordPress đź”—
This blog has moved from WordPress.com to self-hosting. If you were following it via WordPress, you should use an RSS reader pointed at nolanlawson.co [...]
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On not becoming a cyborg đź”—
I was a voracious reader as a kid, and I noticed a funny phenomenon: whatever writer I had most recently read, my next paper for English class would s [...]
The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development đź”—
A lot of the educators I admire in the frontend web space seem to be either bowing out or dialing back their efforts: Axel Rauschmayer, Salma Alam-Nay [...]
You can just choose how many bugs you want now đź”—
There’s a bizarre aspect of AI coding that I’ve been trying to put my finger on, and I think it’s this: you can basically just decide how many bugs yo [...]
Using AI to write better code more slowly đź”—
A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massi [...]
The diminished art of coding đź”—
Programming is an art. It’s less like fine art or music and closer to architecture or carpentry – combining form and function – but it is an art. If y [...]
You had a story đź”—
You had a story you used to tell yourself about how you got here in life. You’d share the story with others. Maybe you’d be at a party, and someone wo [...]
Days of miracle and wonder đź”—
Oprah Winfrey and I have something in common, which is that our favorite album is Paul Simon’s Graceland. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the [...]
We mourn our craft đź”—
I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so th [...]
15 years of blogging đź”—
My first blog post was published just under 15 years ago in March of 2011. Since then, I’ve published 151 posts, including this one. (If I was a numer [...]