Blogging can just be stating the obvious(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

430 points by Curiositry 4 months ago | 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.

"I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry"(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

37 points by Brajeshwar 21 days ago | 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.

Tags to make HTML work like you expect(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

402 points by FromTheArchives 1 year ago | 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.

The AI Aesthetic(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

343 points by montroser 2 months ago | 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.

The Subversive Hyperlink(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

18 points by ColinWright 11 months ago | 8 comments

Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables(blog.jim-nielsen.com)

727 points by Brajeshwar 1 month ago | 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.

Don't become an engineering manager(newsletter.manager.dev)

364 points by flail 7 months ago | 259 comments

A Manager.dev newsletter post by Anton Zaides arguing that engineers should reconsider accepting promotions to engineering manager roles.

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly(anderegg.ca)

338 points by geerlingguy 1 year ago | 432 comments

Blog post discussing a recent drop in YouTube views reported by creators like Adrian Black and Jeff Geerling, and YouTube's opaque monopoly position.

Jeff Dean: Trends in Machine Learning [video](youtube.com)

318 points by belter 2 years ago | 109 comments

YouTube video of Jeff Dean's Rice Ken Kennedy Institute distinguished lecture on exciting trends in machine learning, February 2024.

YouTube's new anti-adblock measures(iter.ca)

851 points by smitop 1 year ago | 1169 comments

A blog post explaining YouTube's A/B-tested anti-adblock measures such as fake buffering, and a uBlock Origin filter written to partially avoid them.

Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video](youtube.com)

1382 points by sandslash 1 year ago | 757 comments

YouTube video from Y Combinator of Andrej Karpathy's talk "Software Is Changing (Again)" about how AI and LLMs are reshaping software.

Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs(mailgun.com)

346 points by pqvst 2 years ago | 228 comments

Mailgun blog post explaining Gmail and Yahoo's 2024 sender requirements and inbox protections and how they affect bulk email senders.