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.”

Pete Millspaugh@petemillspaugh.com · 6h ago

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

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.]

Illustration of a crying bunny with the text “PLEASE LET ME MERGE!”

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.

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

Screenshot of an email from Deno saying Deno Deploy Classic is shutting down on July 20th. 2026.

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

Software pace layers: formats, protocols, platforms, libraries, apps, intelligence. By @kepano, adapted from Stewart Brand

📝 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

👋🏿 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