blog.jim-nielsen.com — Nobody Believes It, Everybody Does It
Speaking of things we know individually, but let slide collectively, here’s Jeremy Keith talking about how we all used Flash: Remember when almost every...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — My Experience Has Nuance, Yours Is a Data Point
Eric Bailey has a fun little post about how we need more than a few icons to express the nuance of our shared human experience. For example, he suggests...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — A Calendar View For My Blog
807 blog posts across 14 years. That’s how much I’ve published on my blog at the time of this writing. And here’s the question I’ve been turning over in my...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Have You Heard the Good News About Microlighter?
Dave Rupert wrote about shipping microlighter: a tool for handling syntax highlighting using the CSS Custom Highlights API. I saw his post the day he...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Getting an LLM to Make Me a Tool for Enriching the Color Metadata in My Icon Collection
On my icon gallery sites, I have metadata I’ve manually added over the years to tag certain icons as being predominantly “blue” or “orange” or some other...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — A Sloppy Interface Is a Security Liability 
In his talk “Why AI Is Breaking Software Security As We Know It” (my notes here), Feross Aboukhadijeh talks about the Axios npm incident and how the...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Oops, Should’ve Thought of That
Gordon Brander writes: The thing about computers is that they can do anything you wish, so long as you specify your wish in exacting detail. However, LLMs...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Oh Hey, It’s Not Just Me
My whole life I’ve felt like I have great eyesight (and I still do). But lately I’ve been noticing what feels like…some slippage. Nothing big. Just this...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — The Fruits of AI
Terry Godier has a post titled “Mea culpa” (which, given his framing, might’ve been better titled “Claude’s Culpa”). I’m not sure how much to even trust...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — A License to Act
In the past, search engines and the open web granted access to other people’s knowledge but the task fell to you to synthesize an understanding from it and...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — The AI Aesthetic
Every zeitgeist comes with new design idioms unique to its challenges. Many of them disappear as fads change, but others bake themselves into deeper parts of...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Can the Tide of AI Investment Life All Boats on the Web?
Jason Grigsby has a great article where he surfaces an opinion from the Safari team about how AI agents shouldn’t get special treatment: An agent acting on a...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Podcast Notes: Ed Catmull on David Senra
Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and former president of Disney Animation, was on the David Senra podcast and I quite enjoyed the interview. (If you like the...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Make It Work vs. Make It Good
There are two wolves inside of me, lol. Some days I want to be a “designer”. Other days I want to be a “developer”. On the days I find myself wanting to feed...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Podcast Notes: Iain McGilchrist on “The Great Simplification”
I wish I could remember how this podcast came across my radar so I could give credit where it’s due. But alas, I cannot. It’s episode 217 with Dr. Iain...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — What’s an Icon in 2026?
As icons continue to change across Apple’s platforms, I have thoughts. They mainly revolve around two perspectives: What I think of icons as a long-time user...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Family Feud: Mac-assed Mac App Edition
“We asked 100 people: What are the top three companies on earth best positioned to make a world-class Mac-assed Mac app?” Buzz! “Apple!” Survey says: Yes!...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Making a Shuffle Button
I made some updates to my notes blog, including a change to how my “Shuffle” feature worked. Figured I’d blog about it. Shuffle? On a Blog? At the time of...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — This Page Left Intentionally Blank
I was popping off about negation being an act of creativity, when Blake Watson introduce me to the idea of the “This Page Intentionally Left Blank”-Project...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Notes from Bryan Cantrill’s “Intelligence is not Enough”
I quite enjoyed this talk from Bryan Cantrill where he discusses the difficult engineering problems they overcame while working on their company Oxide. Some...