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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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.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kepano/116289979416908671

This, but also at the feature level. Everybody so excited to be shipping any and everything right now because it’s “easy”, but so much of it is dead on arrival because there’s no appetite to actually nurture and grow it beyond v1

what are the chances this thing will be abandonware in a month?

you can make something in a few days but will you commit to maintaining and improving it for the next few years?

brrr is now available on the App Store 🚀

A simple and fast way to send push notifications to your own devices.

No signup. No dashboard. Just a webhook.

https://brrr.now

brrr

Push notifications for yourself. iOS and macOS.

brrr

📝 If you stop writing code and start generating it, you lose a process which helped sharpen and refine your thinking. What are you replacing it with? (Talking to myself here...)

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/code-as-process/

Code as a Tool of Process

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

Just after 11 mins, I passed 10k requests

Some people like to go out star gaze.

Not me.

I like to open up the network tab on media sites and watch the network requests go by.

Just sit there and watch the requests pile up as you simply leave the tab open.