blog.jim-nielsen.com — Software Pliability

February 7, 2025

Quoting myself from former days on Twitter: Businesses have a mental model of what they do. Businesses build software to help them do it—a concrete...

blog.jim-nielsen.com — Blown Away By the Unexpected

February 4, 2025

A friend gave me a copy of the book “Perfect Wave” by Dave Hickey. I’ve been slowly reading through each essay and highlighting parts with my red pencil....

blog.jim-nielsen.com — UI Pace Layers

February 3, 2025

Jeremy Keith, Chris Coyier, and others (see Jeremy’s post) have written about the idea of “pace layers” and now I’m going to take a stab at applying it to...

blog.jim-nielsen.com — Notes on Google Search Now Requiring JavaScript

January 29, 2025

John Gruber has a post about how Google’s search results now require JavaScript[1]. Why? Here’s Google: the change is intended to “better protect” Google...

blog.jim-nielsen.com — Missed Connections

January 28, 2025

Let me tell you about one of the best feelings. You have a problem. You bang your head on it for a while. Through the banging, you formulate a string of...

blog.jim-nielsen.com — HTML Minification for Static Sites

January 27, 2025

This is a note to my future self, as I’ve setup HTML minification on a few different projects and each time I ask myself, “How did I do that again?” So...

blog.jim-nielsen.com — Consistency For Who? Thoughts on Overriding Basic Computing Controls

January 23, 2025

A note before we start: I don’t know how much of this I believe. I’m sketching out some feelings in this post and thinking through whether it actually makes...

blog.jim-nielsen.com — Relationship Advice for AI

January 20, 2025

You know what’s really helpful in solving my own problems? Writing them down, sending them to someone, and not hearing back. You ever do that? For me, it’s a...

blog.jim-nielsen.com — Tools As Ways of Being

January 16, 2025

I took notes from Sean Voisen’s call for more hybrid tools. He speaks for a moment on generative AI and its inclusion into existing tools, but reading...

blog.jim-nielsen.com — Using Locally-Installed CLI Tools In Node Projects

January 14, 2025

You have a dependency that provides a CLI tool, how do you use it? Even though you did npm i from your project root, if you run it won’t work because that...

blog.jim-nielsen.com — Gotchas in Naming CSS View Transitions

January 13, 2025

I’m playing with making cross-document view transitions work on this blog. Nothing fancy. Mostly copying how Dave Rupert does it on his site where you get a...

blog.jim-nielsen.com — Don’t Miss the Product for the Artifacts

January 9, 2025

Ever hear that idiom, “Don’t miss the forest for the trees”? The idea being, you miss the bigger picture because you’re focused on the minutia? Feels like...

blog.jim-nielsen.com — Social Inflation

January 7, 2025

Imagine you’re on a social network and you start getting tons of followers. You love it! Your follower count is going up! Instead of a nobody with a couple...

blog.jim-nielsen.com — Push Notifications Are Organizational Marshmallows

January 6, 2025

It’s a notifications’ world, we’re just living in it. Companies can’t help but try and get your attention via email, text, or push notifications and drive...

blog.jim-nielsen.com — You Can Now Subscribe To My Blog via Email

January 5, 2025

I don’t think you should. I think you should use RSS. But if you want posts delivered directly to your email, you can do that now. However, disclaimer: I...