@maggieappleton.com really enjoyed the honesty in your latest post (“January 2026”) and love your posture towards free passes at this time in your life. Keep up the great writing — or don’t, free pass either way :)

I haven't coded since last year hurr durr

lol I gotta admit, AI takes the "loosely held opinions" thing very seriously

📝 It’s dangerous to read stuff, because then I have thoughts and have to write stuff. This time it’s about how bad natural language is at specifying intent and translating it to software. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/making-...

Merry Christmas from Fluffy!

Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate! Here's an old picture of my then pet chicken, Garbin, in a Christmas hat. No, she wasn't cooperative. Why'd you ask?

lol what if this was the start of the Google-ification of Apple’s own app icons?

Me using a vibe-coded UI:

I feel seen. “I have a 401k and a mortgage. I can’t be good at video games.” @davatron5000.bsky.social

“This is some of our best work” — a product team about to ship a change everyone relies on and loves

Stealworkers

This post reveals how the sausage is made: the modern contact page is _designed_ to keep you from contacting anyone.

Apple 1992 vs 2025

My mom is simply the best. She willingly switched to Signal because I asked her to and will also compliment my work even though it has far too many f-bombs for her taste.

wake up, new @lynnandtonic.com personal site just dropped!

📝 I'm a curmudgeon for doing menu items without icons (unless you can give a good reason to include them). And apparently Apple used to recommend the opposite of what they now do in Tahoe. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/icons-i...

This exemplifies what I was trying to get at in my blog post blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/thought... This emphasis on “we’re making agents to help humans” subtly means agents are gonna get all the priority over human needs

incredible writing

📝 “Growth” is an interesting word. In the natural world, you tend to it. In the business world, you “hack” it, “engineer” it, and do everything you can to otherwise accelerate, manipulate, and manufacture it into existence. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/grow-li...

Anybody else out there never done advent of code, and not doing it this year either? Just me? Ok

📝 Jotted down a few more notes about all the resources for which I serve 404s blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/malicio...

Pies are secured

OH on standup: "you know, it's AI, so it doesn't always do what you tell it. I don't know how else to yell at it louder to not do that." This is the same technology we're going to flood the world with and base every aspect of our lives on lol

RSS is SSR backwards. What kind of conspiracy is this???

📝 Just gonna keep letting `/robots.txt` return a 404. Change my mind. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/top-res...

lol LLMs as the tobacco of this generation. Everyone hyping it for being healthy/sexy/etc. but in a decade when our codebases all have cancer we say “maybe this isn’t so good…”

this is so relatable. making pictures of software is the gateway drug to making software.

Hey, recently came to the same realization: choosing to store my data as JSON files on disk (rather than rows in a DB) has actually paid some good dividends. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/files-o...

the image of little octos working a factory line because GitHub's down is cute. but really they should make a page full of memes representing the pain actual humans are going through at the moment lol

Me checking to see how many times I've dismissed a prompt from OpenAI asking if I want to try their new Atlas browser

📝 Getting the LLM to write a quick n' dirty script for me worked quite well. Turns out, storing my data as JSON files on disk under git control (instead of in a database) wasn't such a bad idea. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/files-o...

📝 Made a collection of b-sides to Tahoe's terrible icons. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/tahoes-...

📝 Shout out to the folks at @cloudfour.com and the image-compare web component they made. Super easy to use. Exactly what I was looking for. ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️, would use again. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/compari...

📝 A cursory overview of my media consumption as it relates to nuclear weapons — in case that topic piques your interest or you have recommendations for me. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/my-atom...

My favorite way of writing typescript

Apple on making icons across iOS/macOS/watchOS: "Give your app a consistent identity wherever it shows up" Also Apple: "Color is no longer a consistent part of your identity"

@tylersticka.com re: latest shoptalk, if you would like to refer to me as “the Tyler Sticka of the desert southwest”, I will accept that label with honor.

Really like what I’m seeing in fetch-router (part of @remix.run 3 tools). (It’s also early days and changing fast.) This example was meant to explore how easily it lets you express the basics of making an entire client/server website in a single file.

> [my] files get plopped on Netlify and run as they are. Just a good ole webpage. That is still 100% acceptable and good in 2025! Don’t let anyone tell you any different. Hell yeah!

geeez autocomplete, I'm sitting right here you know...

📝 Rather than shouldering the cost to design, build, optimize, and maintain your own implementation of a thing, consider leveraging the browser’s implementation of a thing which is free and (likely) optimized beyond anything you can do yourself. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/browser...

Remember when Gmail first came out and it was 1GB of free storage? 1 GB??!?! well here we are maybe ~20 years after I first setup my account and they just emailed me to say I'm at 50% capacity. So I've got another 20 years before I gotta figure something out lol

I will personally vouch for the al pastor tacos at el gordo in vegas

@farrant.me came across your website today and experienced so much delight: - prose all over the site is wonderful / funny - overall visual design/aesthetic - footer + non-human audience note - obviously the color picker TY for making me smile today

Josh @farrant.me's site has a lovely theme-switcher... that plays music! farrant.me

📝 Sometimes its cathartic to just blog about really basic, (probably?) obvious stuff blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/dont-fo...

AI Browsers: Living on the Frontier of Security by @jim-nielsen.com /ht @tylersticka.com blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/ai-brow...

📝 “AI browsers” and “npm supply chain attacks” have been in the news a lot lately and the intersection of those topics seems like destiny. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/ai-brow...