blog.jim-nielsen.com — Writing: Blog Posts and Songs
I was listening to a podcast interview with the Jackson Browne (American singer/songwriter, political activist, and inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known
I’ve written previously about reloading a document using only HTML but that got me thinking: What are all the values you can put in an anchor tag’s href...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy
Some lessons I’ve learned from experience. 1. Install Stuff Indiscriminately From npm Become totally dependent on others, that’s why they call them...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Occupation and Preoccupation
Here’s Jony Ive in his Stripe interview: What we make stands testament to who we are. What we make describes our values. It describes our preoccupations. It...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Measurement and Numbers
Here’s Jony Ive talking to Patrick Collison about measurement and numbers: People generally want to talk about product attributes that you can measure easily...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Computers Are a Feeling
Exploring diagram.website, I came across The Computer is a Feeling by Tim Hwang and Omar Rizwan: the modern internet exerts a tyranny over our imagination....
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Follow Up: An Analysis of YouTube Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website
After publishing my Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website, Tina Nguyen, political correspondent at The Verge, reached out with some...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Do You Even Personalize, Bro?
There’s a video on YouTube from “Technology Connections” — who I’ve never heard of or watched until now — called Algorithms are breaking how we think. I...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Setting Element Ordering With HTML Rewriter Using CSS
After shipping my work transforming HTML with Netlify’s edge functions I realized I have a little bug: the order of the icons specified in the URL doesn’t...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — An Analysis of Links From The White House’s “Wire” Website
A little while back I heard about the White House launching their version of a Drudge Report style website called White House Wire. According to Axios, a...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Transforming HTML With Netlify Edge Functions
I’ve long wanted the ability to create custom collections of icons from my icon gallery. Today I can browse collections of icons that share pre-defined...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Little Swarming Gnats of Data
Here’s a screenshot of my inbox from when I was on the last leg of my flight home from family summer vacation: That’s pretty representative of the flurry of...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — My Copy of The Internet Phone Book
I recently got my copy of the Internet Phone Book. Look who’s hiding on the bottom inside spread of page 32: The book is divided into a number of categories...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Becoming an Asshole
This post is a secret to everyone! Read more about RSS Club. I’ve been reading Apple in China by Patrick McGee. There’s this part in there where he’s talking...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — The Continuum From Static to Dynamic
Dan Abramov in “Static as a Server”: Static is a server that runs ahead of time. “Static” and “dynamic” don’t have to be binaries that describe an entire...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — The Web as URLs, Not Documents
Dan Abramov on his blog (emphasis mine): The division between the frontend and the backend is physical. We can’t escape from the fact that we’re writing...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Some Miscellaneous Thoughts on Visual Design Prodded By The Sameness of AI Company Logos
Radek Sienkiewicz in a funny-because-its-true piece titled “Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?“: We made a circular shape [logo] with some angles...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Notes from Andreas Fredriksson’s “Context is Everything”
I quite enjoyed this talk. Some of the technical details went over my head (I don’t know what “split 16-bit mask into two 8-bit LTUs” means) but I could...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Is It JavaScript?
OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript. My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest of the day debugging an electron issue — @jonkuperman.com...
blog.jim-nielsen.com — Tradeoffs to Continuous Software?
I came across this post from the tech collective crftd. about how software is in a process of “continuous disintegration”: One of the uncomfortable truths we...