Errors Aren’t All Bad 🔗
Adam Silver wrote “Don’t use the maxlength attribute to stop users from exceeding the limit” which seems like one of those obvious things that needn’t [...]
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Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems 🔗
Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll solve the problem before you’re done with Step 1. [...]
Motorcycles, Cars, Websites, and Seams 🔗
In high school, I had a friend named Joe who owned a Honda Trail 110, a small motorcycle with enough history for its own Wikipedia page. It didn’t go [...]
The Big Sur-ification of macOS Icons 🔗
Here’s an example of some icons that transitioned well in the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons: And just for good measure, here’s a few more — I love [...]
Interdisciplinary Website Maker 🔗
Paul Ford has a great article at Wired about his own experience as an English major working in tech. While I myself am not an English major (more on t [...]
Consistent Navigation Across My Inconsistent Websites 🔗
Anything I ship to my personal domain jim-nielsen.com is made using IDD: impulse driven development. I can convince myself that just about anything is [...]
Faster Connectivity !== Faster Websites 🔗
This post from Dan Luu discussing how web bloat impacts users with slow devices caused me to reflect on the supposition that faster connectivity means [...]
You Are What You Read, Even If You Don’t Always Remember It 🔗
Here’s Dave Rupert (from my notes): the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking. I have to constantly remind myself [...]
Implementing Netlify’s Image CDN 🔗
tl;dr I implemented Netlify’s new image transformation service on my icon gallery sites and saw a pretty drastic decrease in overall bandwidth. Here a [...]
Expose Platform APIs Over Wrapping Them 🔗
From Kent C. Dodds’ article about why he won’t be using Next.js: One of the primary differences between enzyme and Testing Library is that while enzym [...]