Jim Nielsen

@jimniels
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Designer, developer, blogger.

Lover of food and websites.

Icon-noisseur https://www.iosicongallery.com

Publisher of feeds. You should subscribe.

Bloghttps://blog.jim-nielsen.com
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Websitehttps://www.jim-nielsen.com
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📝 Decided to spend a little time journaling about how I've been trying my hand at vibe coding an RSS app.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/vibe-dreams-didnt-come-true/

I Tried Vibing an RSS Reader and My Dreams Did Not Come True

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

RE: https://labyrinth.social/@nash/116178591588359360

you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production

📝 Been thinking a lot about this idea of: how do you best judge when to 1) bend to rules, or 2) ignore the rules and instead embrace the sensitivities of a localized context?

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/systemic-vs-localized/

The Blandness of Systematic Rules vs. The Delight of Localized Sensitivity

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Great design passes through three stages:

1. It’s shrugged off by its creator.
2. It’s opposed by the team.
3. It’s accepted as self-evident.

Hey gang, I need your help.

For @cloudfour’s design practice to survive, we need more projects.

If you’ve ever benefited from any of the 25+ talks, 80+ code repos or 500+ articles we’ve shared for free over the past 19 years, please read and share this post: https://cloudfour.com/thinks/more-projects-please/

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More Projects Please

We’re actively seeking new UX design, UI design or hybrid creative/development challenges to solve.

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2010: Software eats the world.
2020: Software shits out the world it ate.

To err is human.

To err continuously is agentic.

I wrote about a feature that I'd really like to see in browsers https://tylergaw.com/blog/color-scheme-browser-native-control/
Browsers Should Have a Native Control for Per-Site Color Scheme

A proposal for browsers to offer a per-site color scheme control.