Lane Sawyer🌹

Over the last few months, I've tried vibe coding, a practice in which the software "developer" doesn't write any code but produces an application exclusively by chatting with an AI agent.

I'm getting older, which is not fun.

Today I am participating in the January 30th, 2026 national shutdown of (1) no work, (2) no school, and (3) no shopping.

One of the recent issues of Nature magazine featured an article on the cover where I'm listed as an author!

This year I had a professional and personal goal to "attend" a software engineering conference.

I turned 34 today, and this was the first year The Universe got me something for my birthday!

Last weekend I was driving on the interstate on the way to Utah for a family vacation when I saw a sign saying it was going to narrow from two lanes to one.

The year is 2023.

Style guides are used to get your team on the same page so you can work effectively together.

A few weeks ago I went on a backpacking trip with some of my childhood friends.

A major rule on the Internet is "don't feed the trolls".

Recently I was notified that my team won the "Exemplary Achievement Award for Data Reuse" award from the National Institutes of Health!

Heyyyy 2022 wasn't half bad, right?

Midterms are coming up.

Today my apartment complex locked me into my apartment.

The Internet is an incredible invention, likely to go down as one of the most consequential technologies in human history, right up there with agriculture, government, electricity, and industrial processes.

Recently I was working on getting a basic Node.js REST API running on Microsoft Azure's App Service platform.

JavaScript is everywhere.

Now that I've been working remotely for more than two years, I figured it's worth sitting down to hammer out my thoughts and reflect on what I do and don't like about a fully remote job.

Surprisingly, I haven’t written anything about one of the most meaningful decisions I've ever made.

I'm so stoked!

I said I'm not writing about this again, but I will continue chaining together my periodic posts about gun violence in the United States every time something particularly egregious happens again.

We won the CONCACAF Champions League title tonight!

Audience This post is written for an audience of software engineers and assumes general Internet experience.

Audience This post is written for an audience of software engineers and assumes general Internet experience.

Year two is over!

Have you ever run into a pull request that seemed impossible to merge?

Go read it.

Over the last year or so I've been occasionally hacking away at a web app called Dicebag, which will eventually become a collection of useful tools to facilitate in-person Dungeons & Dragons games.

As the first year of the decade comes to a close, I can breath a sigh of relief.

Last week, the Missouri governor showed the world his technological illiteracy by vowing to prosecute a "hacker" that brought a major data leak to the government's attention.

If you know me well, you know I'm a tad bit into podcasts.

It's that time of year again, where the sun sets before 7 PM and a perpetually gray blanket of clouds once again descends on the Emerald City.

In order to prepare to conduct a technical interview of a potential future co-worker, I decided to try to solve the problem we would be presenting to the candidate.

I thought this was supposed to be over.

I am a professional web developer.

I got my second poke yesterday!

I got my first poke last weekend.

It's been a whole year.

Today, Mozilla shipped Firefox 85, in which they completely ripped out Adobe Flash functionality.

Joe Biden is officially the 46th President of the United States!

After the unlikely, but very welcome, results of the Georgia special elections, new opportunities abound.

Wow, what a day.

Phew, we made it.

In the United States, the general election is coming up in a couple weeks.

I'm all settled in my new apartment in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle.

I've got some exciting personal news: I recently accepted a position with the Allen Institute for Brain Science!

We're a bunch of racists who use police power to punish black people because we never got over losing our slaves.

The United States is democratic republic.

I did it!