The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks đź”—
One of my pet peeves with the web development community is that so many of the decisions we make are vibes-based. Frameworks are “blazing fast,” tools [...]
Read the Tea Leaves
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Do web components have a future if nobody is writing them? đź”—
With my previous post on “using the platform”, I was surprised that the comments on Hacker News and Lobsters tended to veer toward web components. Thi [...]
Why don’t more developers “use the platform”? 🔗
For years, advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers to “use the platform”. I’ve often been one of thos [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]