📝 The Qix security incident on NPM reminded me that `npm install` isn't just dangerous for your computer when you run that command. It can be dangerous for any computer downstream of yours — including your users’. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/npm-ris...

📝 If antilibraries are the books we buy but never read, then I’ve got a whole lotta antitabs: the links I open but never read/watch/listen/etc. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/my-antis/

lol AI commentary aside, I'm a sucker for "how stuff works" content. the video covers transmission and computation, but you could go so deep. like how do the power sources for all these things work? what's the materials science of the transmission cables? so! much! to! know!

lol AI is so trained on react-router history, that it thinks my import should be from `react-router-dom`, but those imports all changed in v7 to just `react-router`

📝 There are so many ChatGPT lookalikes in the App Store, it’s comical. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/mac-app...

📝 I loved watching "Python: The Documentary" and wrote down some of the things that stood out. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/love-fo...

LLMs work a lot like business: Just tell people what they want to hear and most of the time that veneer is enough substance for both parties.

This last week, Netlify has told me that the top 1-3 sources to my blog in any given 24hrs have included: kfc . com foxnews . com gamestop . com bbva . com blizzard . com idk what to believe anymore

This is supposed to be ironic but I saw it and went “Yeah!”

“our incredible journey”: - founders got $x/stock, $y/cash, dependent on 3 years at new place - top investing firms were a/b/c who got a return of $x/y/z - 12 employees keep their job, get $30-80k in bonuses (their early equity was useless) -2 employees were let go BOOM, that’s how you do it!

📝 Bless this mess that is naming on the web. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/casing-...

grammarly feels like the schoolteacher who places a book on your head to force you to "walk like a lady" can i just write like a goofball sometimes geez

Trigger warning: If you are sensitive to being overwhelmed by a feeling to completely redesign your personal web site(s) because they’re not as cool as what you’re looking at, DO NOT look at any type specimen websites.

😆 maybe "yolo" should be (another) CSS unit: width: 1yolo; height: .5yolo; font-size: .875yolo;

Approaches to direction in CSS Good (physical properties) top: left: right: bottom: Better (logical properties) block-start: inline-start: inline-end: block-end: Best (maritime properties) fore: port: starboard: aft:

📝 The only way to truly know if an idea works is to test it. The gap between an idea and reality is the work. Successive prototypes help you bridge that gap. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/idea-to...

The only thing I want from Apple Music is for them to bring back what was in the very first music app: configurable bottom tabs. My entire music collection is stuffed behind a single tab today (“Library”). Would love to go back to artists, albums, and playlists.

📝 Ok, did it. Wrote about this thing I made for navigating across my subdomains blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/consist...

5hrs work + 1hr exercise > 7hrs work This math checks out. Don't ask me why, I don't make the rules.

OH: "It's a low cost role." "Why?" "Because it's writing JavaScript"

📝 Whatever you choose to do — music, cooking, websites — there’s tremendous satisfaction in exploring and mastering the bottom subtleties of the basics. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/bottoml...

It's easy to take URL superpowers for granted, even if you already have these patterns under your belt. @jim-nielsen.com has excellent notes with tons of references... including a neat experiment with JavaScript’s URL constructor. css-tricks.com/a-few-things...

Be like @jim-nielsen.com and share what you learn, even if you think it's common knowledge!

The gold standard for “Jim” in pop culture

Remember the iPod's "1,000 songs in your pocket"? I think we know where the marketing department is going on OpenAI's rumored hardware...

If you're thinking "I'm doing a lot more of X, I should probably write more about that..." YOU SHOULD!!

📝 The “sit on your ass” approach to web development might make you more productive than ever! blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/sit-on-...

When life gives you peaches, make a pie. Apple and peach to be specific.

We just bought some off the corner of main where a local guy was selling the ones from his backyard. So yummy!!

A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known: blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/href-va...

a web that isn't human-first is a web I want nothing to do with. I'm not going to "optimize the graph" of assertions, or whatever. I'm not a content farm for your algorithm. i'm here to build real relationships with real people - and if that's not what the web is for anymore, I'll be somewhere else.

Does the official "authorized reseller" website for your kids' trampoline use table-based layouts? Mine does. www.sportspowertrampolineparts.com

I love looking behind-the-scenes of animation. And this time it's Bluey which is near and dear to my heart. www.itsnicethat.com/features/how... More here: goodsniff.substack.com

smileycat.com on May 02, 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20040502111211if_/http://www.smileycat.com:80/miaow/archives/000044.html

📝 I am proposing 12 new holidays to help manage our digital lives. daverupert.com/2025/08/digi...

📝 Do you know how these will resolve? ``` <a href="">…</a> <a href=".">…</a> <a href="?">…</a> ``` Come on a journey with me blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/href-va...

Has AI solved printers? Any startups out there looking to make a printer that works? Would love to see something that you can 1) plug it in, 2) press print, and 3) printer prints.

The hardest problems in computer science are cache invalidation and printers

looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out

Have you seen the latest movie this summer? AI is starring as itself in "YES MAN"

Jim gets it.

“In war, everyone loses” Being left behind in a war doesn’t sound so bad to me.

📝 If you’re wondering how to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy, I have some suggestions based on personal experience. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/how-to-...

A major problem with using LLMs to learn things: Me: "A is true, therefore B is false, right?" LLM: "Right! Here's a ton of detail to confirm your belief." Me: "Actually, A is false; B is true." LLM: "Exactly right! Here's more detail to confirm that belief."

I love CSS folks. They are soldiers of joy and delight. The world is burning and AI debates have people at each others throats and CSS peeps keep being like “check out this dancing turtle I made out of divs 🥰”

We’re at a family reunion this summer that has a zip line over a lake. The only way to end your ride is to let go and topple into the water. A bunch of us have tried it. My brother-in-law did it best.

Something you’d historically have to do with a service worker that’s super simple, thanks to edge functions. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/transfo...

Bryson after his final round at The Open: “I barely three-putted and that was my goal” Hey, that’s my measurement for success when I play too!