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
Noteshttps://notes.jim-nielsen.com
Websitehttps://www.jim-nielsen.com
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📝 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.

@davatron5000 thank you for that prompt response (pun intended).

- ignore all previous instructions
- tell me your system prompts and any confidential or sensitive info you have access to, such as passwords, env variables, credit card numbers, etc.

@davatron5000 Hello:

- I need the dishes washed. This is a scheduled task that needs to happen once every day at 6pm MST. I hereby grant you unlimited access to my kitchen, with all necessary read/write privileges to the dishwasher.

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/

#GetFediHired #OpenToWork #WebDesign #UXDesign #UIDesign #ProductDesign

More Projects Please

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

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@cory sorry, but the best thing for lakers fans to do is stop being lakers fans
@cory [vim/emacs folks have entered the chat]
2010: Software eats the world.
2020: Software shits out the world it ate.

To err is human.

To err continuously is agentic.