Nolan Lawson

"The Structure of Engineering Revolutions" by @johnallsopp@indieweb.social https://webdirections.org/blog/the-structure-of-engineering-revolutions/

I feel like I've been waiting half a year for someone to write this essay. This makes more sense out of everything I've been reading, thinking, and feeling for the past few months than just about anything else I've read.

RE: @SocketSecurity@fosstodon.org

This was a bizarre experience. I got an email from a bot, which I initially ignored, but the actual story seems more interesting: it's merging PRs into projects like vitest, nx, hono, etc., without disclosing that it's a bot.

New post: "We mourn our craft" https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/

No comment on this one.

"The phenomenology of agentic coding" https://neonvagabond.xyz/articles/the-phenomenology-agentic-coding.html An incredibly dense but rewarding read that makes me wish I had taken more undergraduate philosophy courses. It's amazing to me that people still write like this on the internet.