Jim Nielsen

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tempted to make macwright.com "more accessible for llms" but struggling to figure out a single way in which doing so benefits me

📝 I’ve shared this anecdote before, but I still think about it. So I wrote it down for the old blog. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/why-dad...

Quite enjoyed this perspective from Jason Goldman on the Aboard podcast. As @ftrain.com says afterwards, I’m really glad he has chosen to spend his time communicating things like this. notes.jim-nielsen.com/n/2026-10-23...

never been so happy in my life to see the .aspx extension on my bank's website lmao

Typo of the day: "AI shift" but you typed "AI shit" And honestly, either works lol

📝 One of my arguments against putting icons in every menu item was: “Apple doesn’t do it!” Then they started doing it. Now they’ve stopped doing it. Now I can say, ‘Even Apple tried doing it, and now they say “Don’t”.’ What more could I wish for? blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/icons-i...

See, I see an AI menu and I’m immediately uninterested This menu? I’m in.

I made your old iPhone apps work again, it's a Christmas miracle. Legacy Store brings back the 2010 App Store: 60,000+ apps your old iPhone or iPod touch can install over the air. And if the iPhone’s long gone, Light Touch runs an emulated iPod on your Mac. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_4z...

Well, well, well. Look what we have here on this Monday morning

📝 Next time somebody asks me what I’d do with an insane amount of wealth, I now have my answer: I’d become a “domainer”. Thanks for the insider jargon @petemillspaugh.com blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/domains...

Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm.

If you're curious how all those newfangled domain names come to be -- I wrote a feature for WIRED on top-level domains and the people who make them I thoroughly enjoyed meeting all the kind and fascinating people in this wacky domain world. (And I promise it has nothing to do with cat thongs.)

Really agree with @jim-nielsen.com on making things we want to exist. Using KK Sans on my own site keeps giving me reasons to improve it; I'd like any money it made to help me keep doing that. karlkoch.me/writing/on-w...

Maybe because of the nature of the economic bubble they've created around it, and/or their own ideological biases towards its"inevitability," they appear to instead believe that if they just push as fast as possible, harms be damned, we'll all just be stuck with it, whatever happens.

📝 Really enjoyed this talk. Alex covers lots of great topics, like - When did “modernize” come to mean updating something that’s only ~5 years old? - Do technological choices have values tied to them? (Spoiler: they do) - HTML is amazing. My notes here: blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/talk-no...

Free app idea: It’s a timer. When you write blog posts, it adds time. When you code your blog, it subtracts time - at 2x the rate! If you’re out of time, your codebase is locked and you can’t work on it until you’ve poured more time into writing. I’d hate it & I’d be your first subscriber lol

Presenting... Talk of the Town, October 2026 edition *Playing with Jev & home-cooked transit dev* feat. @jim-nielsen.com, @nicobaier.com, @mootari.social, @paulchinjr.bsky.social, @marianoguerra.org, @cheersderek.com, @puf.io, @stevekrouse.com, @petemillspaugh.com, and dozens more

I was searching for a super simple interval timer to use when I jump rope. No nonsense. Minimal config. Set work, rest, and rounds, then have at it. Use it on the web. Save it to the home screen. Use it offline. Keep screen awake for the active duration. Maybe sprinkle in some web audio noises?

📝 Reading Louie Mantia’s post made me think of the squircle jail as Apple’s HOA for macOS: it raises the floor, but also lowers the ceiling. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/app-ico...

lol illuminating back-and-forth conversation on HN

Unsolicited redesign for the github status page: remove the custom illustration and just display random devops memes.

“I’m Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry” blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/embarra... Relatable piece by @jim-nielsen.com

Writing a .md file in a project where I’m undoing some complexity I added in the past. I’m creating the file as a way to document these evolving changes (so I don't redo past mistakes). At the end of the document, I came to this conclusion. Maybe one day I’ll actually learn this lesson.

📝 I could just share a link to Marques Brownlee’s video and say, “Hey I thought this was good. You might too.” But turns out I had a lot I wanted to say and think through, so it turned into a blog post. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/dear-so...

📝 Got nerd-sniped around tagging all my icons with richer metadata for better search. Still not sure how I want to go about it…but I took notes along the way! blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/icon-ga...

The W3C released a new HTML element out of nowhere. It was the element of <surprise>.

📝 Jef Raskin: > An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties. That condemns so many modern interfaces because they are designed to take advantage of human frailties. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/humane-...

📝 This was kind of the perfect little task for an LLM: grab all the 1024px icons from Apple’s apps on my Mac and let's put them in my gallery. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/faster-...