When I was young, you had to go to Vegas or somewhere shady to gamble. Now it’s everywhere in my life: - in my pocket, - advertised on TV, - in my kid’s video games, - in my professional development. The essence of “Just roll the dice one more time…” is everywhere.

> > Even if models are good at producing real results, they’re much better at producing results that look real but are misleading. > Something that looks real, but isn’t quite? > We have a word for that: artificial. Holy crap. It's obvious in hindsight. notes.jim-nielsen.com/n/2026-08-09...

Should we just call an “open source contribution” an “unpaid upstream LLM contribution”?

"Are tiny icons our collective future in interfacing with computers? (Personally, I hope not.)" I also hope not too… - blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aest... by @jim-nielsen.com

@chriscoyier.net somehow missed this master.dev/blog/a-butto... But caught it during shoptalkshow episode — lol I love it! The “bunch of tiny buttons inside a ‘button’” really tickles my brain in a fun way. I wanna push it further, like throw css masonry in there for a little more random haha

A Button That Links to a Random Post in HTML & CSS Only

Perhaps this theoretical button wasn't a button at all, but 50 links in a trenchcoat.

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if there’s a con man, there must also be a con machine, oh wait…

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

🚀 I made a little app for #webcomponents called CEM-to-CSV that creates a lil' spreadsheet to help with naming audits across your entire design system. It's all powered by your custom element manifest. Upload, drop, or paste your CEM today! cem-to-csv.netlify.app

Appreciate the honesty in this post, which I would paraphrase as: “Not sure yet if this is net-better than a SSG setup. Good in ways A, B, maybe not as good in C, D. But given our particular context (i.e. dogfooding our own product) we like the trade-offs. You might too, take a look.”

Pete Millspaugh@petemillspaugh.com · last wk.

we migrated the @val.town docs to val town, which was full of AX/DX/UX tradeoffs (to borrow @jim-nielsen.com's framing) anthropomorphized potato pothole doodle by @jxnblk.bsky.social

@petemillspaugh.com loved reading your post of “domains by the numbers”. That is all :)

Saw this bumper sticker at a tourist shop. Not sure if intended for drivers in traffic, or as a commentary on the developer world [gestures at the current state of agents, GitHub, ci, etc.]

Ok folks. Deleting my account here because I found an analog replacement for this site

Love this! @aresluna.org shows what a year's worth of texts from his barber look like. "this is what software should be" unsung.aresluna.org/one-and-one-...

When you're using AI with your team in Slack, this is exactly the kind of thing you want to see.

New cartoon: B-side comicss.art/comics/253/ What would be some of HTML or CSS B-side tracks? #css #cartoon #humor #joke #webdev

As a Dad to 3 boys, this is incredibly on-point advice www.instagram.com/reels/DanTEG...

Laura Singleton Alston on Instagram: "😂 Whoever came up with this might’ve been raising boys... If you have one boy, you have a boy. If you have two boys, you have half a boy. If you have three boy...

29K likes, 395 comments - thealstonduo on July 10, 2026: "😂 Whoever came up with this might’ve been raising boys... If you have one boy, you have a boy. If you have two boys, you have half a boy. I...

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Pretty cool how the @oxide.computer homepage responds to different screen sizes by showing/hiding the number of racks

My 9y/o, who loves golf, had a dream that Trump passed a law that there can only be “nice” golf courses, and so our local municipal golf course got torn down. He’s been sad about it all day.

If this was my cat...

Brian Groom@groomb.bsky.social · 2w ago

Cat Jumping, Salford, 1957, photo by Neil Libbert.

@gruber.foo I know dithering is doing on a "summer break" next week — err, sorry "vacation" — but plz don't forget to spend the first ~2mins commenting on this sports topic (as a Philly fan) daringfireball.net/linked/2026/...

Yet another "out of memory" dialog. This time 6GB for Shortcuts! (I already closed Chrome which was at 19GB)

📝 I loved “Creativity Inc.”, so it’s no surprise I enjoyed this podcast interview with Ed Catmull blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/podcast...

It's always :where() is CSS never :how() is CSS. comicss.art/comics/252/ #css #cartoon #webdev #joke

13 character limit on my password? I guess less really is more lol

I hate that devs are just not as memory conscious anymore. Like, why is Slack taking up 1GB of my memory?

this is how your email finds me

Damn, this fortune cookie is coming after me

“Make it work” is the first 90% of the work. “Make it good” is the other 90%. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/make-it... by @jim-nielsen.com

How I gather links on the internet

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 3w ago

How armadillos gather foliage for their nests

Deno Deploy Classic shuts down today (Jul 20). I’ve had the email about it my inbox since Mar 25th. Guess when I finally went in and did something about it? I'll give you a hint: it wasn't Mar 25th. And it wasn't any day after that up until Jul 20th