🚀 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
Jim Nielsen
@jim-nielsen.com
👤 designer, developer, blogger ❤️ lover of food & websites 🍷 icon-noisseur iosicongallery.com 🐘 https://mastodon.social/@jimniels 📝 https://blog.jim-nielsen.com 🔗 https://notes.jim-nielsen.com 🏠 https://www.jim-nielsen.com
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.”
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.
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.
@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...
Podcast Notes: Ed Catmull on David Senra
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
blog.jim-nielsen.com
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?
“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
Make It Work vs. Make It Good
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
blog.jim-nielsen.com
How I gather links on the internet
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
formats evolve over decades, apps over months, intelligence is evolving every day in terms of pace layers "file over app" defines priorities: invest deeply in proven formats, and don't expect anything at the intelligence layer to last very long
If you're dealing with SVG icons you probably know the pain of overwriting colors. There's a new spec in the making that allows controlling CSS variables from "the outside". And it's shipping in Firefox already! https://drafts.csswg.org...
📝 Some notes from a recent podcast: - There’s a difference between ignorance and “not knowing”. - Not knowing is what you have _after_ you’ve gained knowledge (because you realize how little you know). - Knowing how little you know is the beginning of wisdom. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/podcast...
Podcast Notes: Iain McGilchrist on “The Great Simplification”
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
blog.jim-nielsen.com
In the process of moving and look who gets the first-class treatment
👋🏿 it’s been a while. I’ve been on Threads, but I wanted to post here as well: I’ve definitely caught that KNICKS IN 5 energy 💙🧡💙🧡, and made a little update to my website
LLMs when you give them security instructions via markdown files