Jim Nielsen

Does the official "authorized reseller" website for your kids' trampoline use table-based layouts?

Mine does.

www.sportspowertrampolineparts.com

I'm imagining it's 2005 and somebody from 2025 has time traveled to tell me that the US Transportation Secretary, a former television host, is announcing a nuclear reactor on moon.

idk if I could wrap my brain around that

transportation sec.? tv host? nukes on moon? come again?

How we built Bluey’s world: tales from original series art director, Catriona Drummond Catriona walks us through the creation of the beloved cartoon’s scenery and backgrounds, from its dollhouse proportions and subtle doggy details, to its distinctly Brisbanite atmosphere.

I love looking behind-the-scenes of animation. And this time it's Bluey which is near and dear to my heart.

www.itsnicethat.com/features/how...

More here: goodsniff.substack.com

Me too.

I can already envision myself in these meetings—“Ok, so explain this to me again one more time?” [zoom call groans]

Organic, Free-Range Thoughts™️

Screenshot of smileycat.com on May 02, 2004

smileycat.com on May 02, 2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20040502111211if_/http://www.smileycat.com:80/miaow/archives/000044.html

📝 I am proposing 12 new holidays to help manage our digital lives. daverupert.com/2025/08/digi...

Also: “all this shit requires long term maintenance” is a phrase I want to leave as a footnote to every single PR I open on GitHub

I was supportive of this until you called Thanksgiving a B-tier holiday. How dare you.

A Few Things About the Anchor Element’s href You Might Not Have Known Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

📝 Do you know how these will resolve?

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Come on a journey with me

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/href-va...

Now we weave nightmares by vibing

Omg. You get it.

Maybe this is what Jonny / Sam are working on…

Has AI solved printers?

Any startups out there looking to make a printer that works?

Would love to see something that you can 1) plug it in, 2) press print, and 3) printer prints.

The hardest problems in computer science are cache invalidation and printers

looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out

"Dad's trust only lays out who gets his websites and GitHub account. There's nothing in here about his bank account or real estate holdings..."

lol I think about this sometimes as I watch family go through the inheritance process

"anybody want grandma's old hope chest? ANYONE? PLZ SOMEONE TAKE IT"

that'll be my kids, "anybody wanna deal with dad's websites? ANYONE?!?"

Poster of the movie "YES MAN" with Jim Carrey, except his face is superimposed with a logo of OpenAI and his name has been erased so it says "OpenAI

Have you seen the latest movie this summer? AI is starring as itself in "YES MAN"

although the versioning doesn't quite match up, this one's been going for 4+ decades.

www.npmjs.com/package/zach...

Why have your website be the color of a cool sports when it could be the color of that tie dye shirt you got at the county fair?

(I was gonna dev-tools Dave's website to be like Ferrari red, but when I went to it I thought "this is better")

Jim gets it.

Picking fonts is a lifetime exercise, ya know?

“In war, everyone loses”

Being left behind in a war doesn’t sound so bad to me.

…and an accompanying syntax+plugin for markdown

The only acceptable content archive looks like this:

- How I rebuilt my site on Wordpress (2009)
- How I rebuilt my site on Jekyll (2013)
- How I rebuilt my site with React (2015)
- How I rebuilt my site on Gatsby (2017)
- How I rebuilt my site on Next.js (2019)
- How AI rebuilt my website (2025)

Yeah that’s a great one. Server-side functionality is a slippery slope to server management which leads to “infra” lol

On the HTML front: nothing.
On the JS front: everything.

Ah yes, our friend infra. It deserves its own post!

How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

📝 If you’re wondering how to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy, I have some suggestions based on personal experience.

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/how-to-...