Jim Nielsen
🎨 designer, developer, writer
❤️ lover of food & websites
🍷 icon-noisseur iosicongallery.com
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📝 https://blog.jim-nielsen.com
🔗 https://notes.jim-nielsen.com
- 📝 This talk from Alex Petros is like catnip for me — building with resiliency and longevity on the web. My notes: blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/notes-f...
- 📝 Ended up on a Google Doc from the Chrome team detailing how they think about breaking changes and it was an intriguing read. Took notes and published them on the blog. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/notes-f...
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- If a bug exists in prod, but nobody finds it before you unknowingly resolve it, did it really exist?
- I know someone else — who was modeled on us collectively, btw — who also doesn't often know what they're talking about but speaks with 700% confidence. I won't name names, but their abbreviations are A.I.
- 📝 “For those standing below, things above are below, while things below are above, and this is the case around the entire earth.” Long ago, that was someone saying: the Earth is round and direction is relative to the observer. Language evolves with knowledge. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/languag...
- 📝 Having lived through “design” and “tech” evolving over the last decade, reading Elizabeth Godspeed explaining why designers can't stop joking about hating their jobs really struck a chord. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/tumult-...
- Me shipping a fix in prod to a bug I introduced.
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- 📝 I find it ironic that the web platform has such a strong ethos of "no breaking changes” but the tools we use to build on top of the web are like "BREAKING CHANGE ALL THE THINGS” blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/backwar...
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- 📝 I think an obsession with the details of what goes _in_ drives your satisfaction of what comes _out_. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/craft-a...
- 📝 ~7 years ago I would've said “Yeah I’m a Design Engineer!” Now-a-days, idk. But I have issues with titles. I wrote about them. Now I understand me a bit more. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/job-tit...
- This is Fluffy, our cat. Sometimes I find him lying on the ground on his back. When I pull out my phone to snap a pic, he looks at me the same way I would look at someone if they took a pic of me laying down trying to rest.
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- Proposal to rename "dependencies" in package.json to "liabilities”. So the new structure would be: ``` { "liabilities": { "react": "^19.0.0", "typescript": "^5.0.0" }, "devLiabilities": {...} } ```
- 📝 You get more of what you make easy; therefore, be mindful of what you make easy. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/be-mind...
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- 📝 Cool apps are interoperable. They work on my data rather than own it. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/love-fo...
- 📝 Learned a new word: ductility. From Merriam-Webster: “the ability of a material to have its shape changed...without losing strength or breaking” HTML has high ductility. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/ductili...
- MBs of JS? In this economy?
- 📝 Was doing some CSS where I wanted a `background-image-opacity` rule. The little voice in my head said "nah, that's still impossible" but I looked for a more modern solution anyway Spoiler: there's still no `background-image-opacity` but I found something. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/backgro...
- 📝 I don’t surf (unless you count the web). But I know what it feels like to catch a wave when you’re working on a passion project and it's a beautiful thing. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/flow-st...
- 📝 Friends don’t let friends forget the <meta name="theme-color”> tag. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/dont-fo...
- Nobody ever said "doomsurfing"
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- 📝 A disposition towards being ok with breakage on the web isn't just a technological decision, it’s ecosystem tampering. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/ecosyst...
