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128 points by speckx | 147 comments
Blog post comparing Daniel Ellsberg's account of RAND nuclear strategists skipping retirement plans to the apocalyptic and utopian rhetoric of AI labs like Anthropic.
449 points by riffraff | 275 comments
Blog post by Jim Nielsen noting Apple removed default icons from every menu item in macOS Golden Gate and updated its Human Interface Guidelines against the practice.
60 points by soheilpro | 36 comments
Jim Nielsen's blog post compiling screenshots of the macOS Dock across versions from Mac OS X 10 to macOS 27, tracing app icon design history.
37 points by Brajeshwar | 15 comments
Jim Nielsen blog post reflecting on Ben Thompson's remark about tech being too convoluted, sparked by a family member's text complaining about the modern web.
74 points by speckx | 46 comments
Jim Nielsen blog post responding to Marques Brownlee's "Dear YouTube" video on YouTube's A/B test video variants and what it means for software makers.
727 points by Brajeshwar | 436 comments
A blog post by Jim Nielsen reacting to a Tyler Gaw Bluesky post about finally using old cables from his big box of cables, and deciding to act on it.
343 points by montroser | 157 comments
Blog post by Jim Nielsen on emerging design idioms of the AI era, like the sparkle emoji and rainbow colors, compared to the hamburger menu.
430 points by Curiositry | 124 comments
Jim Nielsen's blog post reflecting on John Gruber's critique of website popups and arguing that blogging can simply be stating the obvious.
769 points by ArmageddonIt | 307 comments
Jim Nielsen's blog post criticizing the UI trend of putting an icon on every menu item, using Google Sheets menus as an example.
402 points by FromTheArchives | 212 comments
Blog post by Jim Nielsen listing the essential boilerplate HTML tags to include so a basic HTML file behaves as expected in browsers.
361 points by ingve | 136 comments
Blog post by Jim Nielsen on how searching "AI chat" in the Mac App Store surfaces many knockoff apps with ChatGPT-like icons, likened to a counterfeit flea market.
40 points by todsacerdoti | 36 comments
1216 points by roosgit | 371 comments
Jim Nielsen blog post on "sanding" UI: repeatedly clicking around and tweaking an interface during development until it feels finished.
333 points by r4um | 134 comments
Jim Nielsen blog post collecting and discussing examples of well-designed URLs on the web, building on Kyle Aster's 2010 essay on URL design.
417 points by goranmoomin | 222 comments
Jim Nielsen blog post arguing web components work differently from React components and are best used to progressively enhance existing HTML.
793 points by imadj | 447 comments
Jim Nielsen's blog post reflecting on a knee injury and the idea that everyone is only temporarily abled, relating it to accessibility.
121 points by fagnerbrack | 41 comments
424 points by samwillis | 226 comments
Jim Nielsen blog post reflecting on Peter van Hardenberg's local-first software talk, framing offline as online with extreme latency and the cloud as optional enhancement.