Jim Nielsen / is on Nostr

Designer, developer, writer.

Lover of food and websites.

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2024-09-21 18:19:48

From the notes:
I think you could argue that a strict data-driven mindset actually encourages the suppression of novelty, because there’s no data for the novel.
https://notes.jim-nielsen.com/#2024-09-21T1221

2024-09-18 16:56:11

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i probably should've been more clear when i spouted off my opinions ha, but I do think a mere “~15 min read" info tidbit in the byline is _way_ better than some widget that tracks me down the page counting down the time.
but for me personally, i would still rather see word count than reading time. maybe it's because seeing "reading time" has always made me feel like an inferior reader because I never get it read in the time stated ha.

2024-09-18 14:26:19

Long story short: I just bought a Switch (first game console in our home).
So that means the long-awaited Switch 2 should get announced any day now.
For everyone that’s been waiting, you’re welcome.

2024-09-18 14:04:46

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BYORTW (bring your own reading time widget ha) seems WAY more useful and personal to me than the site owner implementing one that dictates what the reading time will be for every single user who ever visits their site ever

2024-09-18 04:53:31

📝 Opinion:
When you put a reading time estimation widget on your content, I take that as an admission of so many things — including that you favor expediency over quality.
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/reading-time-estimation-widgets/

2024-09-11 13:45:26

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precisely. This absurd notion that every post needs an image is built into the tools which further perpetuates the idea

2024-09-10 22:39:27

The greatest travesty to happen to the internet in the last decade was that everyone in the world who publishes any kind of written content feels the need to create a “featured" (social share) image.

2024-09-03 05:19:48

📝 I like to build websites by clicking around a lot.
You can call it “QA”, where I purposefully try to break weak points.
But I like a woodworking metaphor more. I feel for rough edges and sand them down, giving myself splinters instead of others.
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/sanding-ui/

2024-08-20 18:49:23

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is state the new treat instead of cookies now?

2024-08-19 05:13:47

📝 Social posts die with the passage of time, whereas blog posts gain life from it!
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/blog-vs-social-posts/
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/986/975/319/662/654/original/ef62b89614caff85.jpeg

2024-08-12 14:31:26

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ha nope, always love a blog post quoting a blog post!

2024-08-12 13:52:18

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idk if you’ve seen this, been Vince Vaughn gave a kind of parallel insight about the movie industry
https://www.threads.net/@carnage4life/post/C-Q8PLFhw3o/?xmt=AQGztDbmPjA2CUk10NRnpf_XjrdrxUSVMcMsOe7s9Uheig

2024-08-12 13:47:44

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quite enjoyed this one.
> The issue is that novelty, by definition, doesn’t have a track record, which means that you can’t predict how it’ll go, but given the nature of the economy we live in, odds are that it will not make enough money to pay for itself.
Never really thought of it this way, but it makes me think that a headstrong, data-informed mindset actually encourages the suppression of novelty (which is so prevalent in tech)

2024-08-09 15:59:16

Ha, remembering that time I had my picture of myself on my home page and (as an easter egg) your cursor turned into a pencil when you hovered my image and you could draw on my face.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/932/889/996/749/491/original/a2745471a7186e66.mp4

2024-08-05 17:15:12

Small scale farming, e.g. gardening, is fun but industrial scale sucks all the fun out.
Similarly, small scale making websites is fun, but industrial scale sucks all the fun out.