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https://nolanlawson.com/2024/10/13/the-greatness-and-limitations-of-the-js-framework-benchmark/
The greatness and limitations of the js-framework-benchmark | Read the Tea Leaves
I love the js-framework-benchmark. It’s a true open-source success story – a shared benchmark, with contributions from various JavaScript framework authors,...
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https://nolanlawson.com/2012/06/10/introducing-the-relatedness-calculator/
Introducing the Relatedness Calculator | Read the Tea Leaves
I’m releasing a new open-source app today. It’s called the Relatedness Calculator. It’s a pretty simple app: what it does is take the name of a relative,...
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https://nolanlawson.com/2022/05/21/the-balance-has-shifted-away-from-spas/
The balance has shifted away from SPAs | Read the Tea Leaves
There’s a feeling in the air. A zeitgeist. SPAs are no longer the cool kids they once were 10 years ago. Hip new frameworks like Astro, Qwik, and Elder.js are...
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https://nolanlawson.com/2025/11/16/the-fate-of-small-open-source/
The fate of “small” open source | Read the Tea Leaves
By far the most popular npm package I’ve ever written is blob-util, which is ~10 years old and still gets 5+ million weekly downloads. It’s a small collection...
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https://nolanlawson.com/2026/03/22/the-diminished-art-of-coding/
The diminished art of coding | Read the Tea Leaves
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 you don’t...
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https://nolanlawson.com/tag/performance/
performance | Read the Tea Leaves
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https://nolanlawson.com/2026/01/31/building-a-browser-api-in-one-shot/
Building a browser API in one shot | Read the Tea Leaves
TL;DR: With one prompt, I built an implementation of IndexedDB using Claude Code and a Ralph loop, passing 95% of a targeted subset of the Web Platform Tests,...
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https://nolanlawson.com/2020/12/
December | 2020 | Read the Tea Leaves
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September | 2015 | Read the Tea Leaves
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https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
We mourn our craft | Read the Tea Leaves
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 that some...
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fiction | Read the Tea Leaves
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February | 2016 | Read the Tea Leaves
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https://nolanlawson.com/2018/04/09/introducing-pinafore-for-mastodon/
Introducing Pinafore for Mastodon | Read the Tea Leaves
Today I’m happy to announce a project I’ve been quietly working on for some time: Pinafore. Pinafore is an alternative web client for Mastodon, which looks...
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https://nolanlawson.com/tag/indexeddb/
indexeddb | Read the Tea Leaves
Posts about indexeddb written by Nolan Lawson
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