Jim Nielsen’s Blog

Study Finds Obvious Truth Everybody Knows

Saying “No” In an Age of Abundance

The Browser’s Little White Lies

The Don’t “Contact Us” Page

You Can Just Say No to the Data

CTA Hierarchy in the Wild

New Year, New Website — Same Old Me

Easy Measures Doing, Simple Measures Understanding

In The Beginning There Was Slop

The AI Security Shakedown

Creating “Edit” Links That Open Plain-Text Source Files in a Native App

A Letter of Feedback To Anyone Who Makes Software I Use

To Make Software Is To Translate Human Intent Into Computational Precision

Leading Global Research and Advisory Firm Recommends Against Using AI Browsers

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The “A” in “AI” Stands For Amnesia

It’s Uncomfortable To Sit With “I Don’t Know”

Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help

Grow, Like a Tree Not a Cancer

Malicious Traffic and Static Sites

Notes From an Interview With Jony Ive

My Number One “Resource Not Found”

Podcast Notes: Feross Aboukhadijeh on The Changelog

Data Storage As Files on Disk Paired With an LLM

Tahoe’s Terrible Icons: The B-Sides

Leveraging a Web Component For Comparing iOS and macOS Icons

Down The Atomic Rabbit Hole

Browser APIs: The Web’s Free SaaS

Don’t Forget These Tags to Make HTML Work Like You Expect

Everything Is Broken

AI Browsers: Living on the Frontier of Security

Write Code That Runs in the Browser, or Write Code the Browser Runs

Research Alt

Social Share Imagery via a Data Attribute

Doing It Manually

Running Software on Software You’ve Never Run

The Risks of NPM

Anti-*: The Things We Do But Not All The Way

RIP “Browsers”

Why Make a Website in 2025?

The Mac App Flea Market

Some Love For Python

Trying to Make Sense of Casing Conventions on the Web

Successive Prototypes Bridge the Gap Between Idea and Reality