Jim Nielsen
👤 designer, developer, blogger
❤️ lover of food & websites
🍷 icon-noisseur iosicongallery.com
🐘 mastodon.social/@jimniels
📝 https://blog.jim-nielsen.com
🔗 https://notes.jim-nielsen.com
- If you find yourself in a situation where you need to flood an LLM's context for testing purposes, might I suggest a plain-text book from project gutenburg. I'm going with Moby Dick today. www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2...
- shadow dom implies the existence of shadow hobbs
- "taking lots of time to think with little to show for it" not sure if criticism of AI or me...
- Hallucinations? Nah, that's just fiction. Everybody loves some good fiction amrite?
- PR reviews now-a-days: LGTC* so LGTM^ *Looks Good To Claude ^Looks Good To Me
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- 📝 Restraint is becoming the only scarce thing left, which means saying “no” is more valuable than ever. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/saying-...
- Reposted by Jim NielsenMy contract is ending at the end of February and so I’d like to find a new role ASAP. I am a senior-level design systems developer / design technologist / front-of-the-frontend developer that specializes in web accessibility. I work remotely from my home in Winnipeg, Canada. 🇨🇦 Shares appreciated!
- 📝 I was trying to write a `:has()` selector with `:visited` and it wasn't working as expected. Turns out it wasn’t a bug, it was the browser telling what MDN calls “a little white lie” ha! blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/browsers-…
- I still notice these every day using command+tab on macOS Tahoe: 1. Every app’s label is centered with the icon, except the left- and right-most apps where it’s strangely offset. 2. The highlight for the active app is very dim & strangely uneven (thicker at the edges, thinner at the corners)
- Reposted by Jim Nielsen2006: Less is more, don’t repeat yourself 2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt 2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us
- Idk what is happening with the animations in Mail for macOS Tahoe, but it's been driving me nuts.
- 📝 It’s true. I’ve been there. I’ve seen these pages made. Despite the familiar title of the page feeling like an invitation — “Contact Us” — the reality is that so many of these pages are designed to keep you from doing precisely that. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/dont-co...
- Reposted by Jim NielsenAnother "I don't like what he says, but I sadly agree" article this week: CTAs hierarchy. It changed from "what's best for the user" primary action, alternative as secondary, to "what's best for the company" (primary) what's acceptable for users (secondary). Yup, yup, raging yup By @jim-nielsen.com
- What’s so good about this is how AI is such a great metaphor for The Ring because it whispers to you. You think it’s yours and you are in control. But you’re not. Someone else it.
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- 📝 You know how you can just do things? Well you can just say no to the data. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/say-no-...
- Tapping my sign: If you're generating an image for your article — with or without AI — you didn’t need one in the first place. bsky.app/profile/bell...
- If you're not already, here's a tip on how to use AI to improve working with your own pull requests
- 📝 Updated the ole’ www website to essentially be a list of feeds that I: 1) update manually, or 2) dynamically fetch at build time from other feeds I publish on the web. Built with #webOrigami blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/new-yea...
- 📝 So much digital ink has been spilled on the idea of "easy vs. simple" but I liked this framing, so I wrote it down. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/easy-vs...
- FAQ: What about those people who say they “don’t want any” but you know they’re gonna have some? Do they need to be in the group photo I upload to the papa John’s app? I don’t want the algorithm to fully count them, but also they need to be counted.
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- Slightly diminish a band: Push Back Against The Machine
- This tracks with my own usage of AI: it seems to work best when I don’t know enough to understand that it didn’t work very thoroughly.
- Stellar post. It’s a reminder that many standardized web APIs only work with privatized cloud infrastructure
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