Jim Nielsen’s Weblog

2020

Reading Notes, February 2020 Feb 21
Programming Pairs Well With Other Disciplines Feb 13
Texting is Cerebral Feb 6
Using PropTypes Outside of React in Template Literal Components Jan 27
Static Site Templating: Switching from React & JSX to JavaScript & Template Literals Jan 27
Reading Notes, January 2019 Jan 24
Follow Your Values, Not Your Passions Jan 14

2019

Reading Notes, December 2019 Dec 30
Twitter Cards and Visually Representing That I’ve Got Stuff To Say Dec 20
A Node.js Helper Function for Accessing the CommonJS Equivalent of __dirname in ES Modules. Dec 20
Netlify Public Folder, Part III: How? The Winding Road to Making a Local Folder Sync to Netlify’s Global CDN Dec 4
Netlify Public Folder, Part II: Why? Netlify Large Media Wasn’t For Me, But Netlify Still Was Dec 4
Netlify Public Folder, Part I: What? Recreating the Dropbox Public Folder With Netlify Dec 4
Reading Notes, November 2019 Nov 25
ECMAScript Modules in Node: My Own Personal Rabbit Hole Nov 25
Reading Notes, October 2019 Oct 28
Book Notes: A Mathematician’s Lament Oct 21
My Favorite RSS Feeds Sep 16
Design Principles Applied to the SF Fonts Sep 5
Thoughts on Rich Harris’ “Metaphysics and JavaScript” Sep 3
Dealing With Uncertainty in Art...and Life Aug 30
Reading Notes, August 2019 Aug 27
Good Things Aug 13
Designing and Engineering for Progressive Disclosure Aug 12
On The Web, Yesterday’s Questions Are Answered in Today’s Platform APIs Jul 27
JSX-Like Syntax for Tagged Template Literals in JavaScript Jul 16
Dynamically Darken a Color in CSS Jul 12
Leveraging Regexes and Git to Find/Replace Dates in Markdown Files Jul 10
Saying No Jul 3
Reading Notes, June 2019 Jun 30
Notes on “Rethinking Asynchronous Programming in JavaScript” by Kyle Simpson Jun 24
How to Create a macOS Menu Bar App for Netlify Jun 19
Reading Notes, May 2019 May 28
Your Product Doesn’t Have to Look the Same On Every Platform Apr 29
Applying Multiple Background Colors with CSS Apr 18
Using @import in CSS to Conditionally Load Syntax Highlighting Styles in Dark Mode Apr 16
Thoughts on Jeremy Keith’s “Split” Apr 10
Moving from EJS to JSX Apr 1
Down the Rabbit Hole of Image Optimization Tooling Mar 27
Reading Notes, March 2019 Mar 26
Improving Server-Side Rendering with React Mar 18
One-Press Deploys: Triggering a Build in Netlify via an Amazon IoT Button Mar 11
The Power of Prototypes in the Creative Process Mar 6
Book Notes: “Creative Selection” by Ken Kocienda Mar 6
Reading Notes, February 2019 Feb 28
Generating Shades of Color Using CSS Variables Jan 31
Reading Notes, January 2019 Jan 30
How Apple Engineers Decided the App Icon Size for the Original iPhone Jan 29
Building a Progressively-Enhanced Site Jan 17
Designing the “Quick Quote” Experience in Agent Portal Jan 8
Conditionally Load Material Icons Jan 7
The Difference Between substring and substr in JavaScript Jan 4

2018

Personal Observations on “CSS and Network Performance” by Harry Roberts Dec 29
Bringing “Dark Mode” to My Icon Galleries Sites Dec 28
Reading Notes, December 2018 Dec 27
Supporting CSS Variables in Sass Dec 18
Book Notes: “The Pun Also Rises” by John Pollack Dec 8
Reading Notes, November 2018 Nov 26
Triggering a Deploy in Netlify With Bookmarklets Nov 21
Migrating from Pathnames to Subdomains for jim-nielsen.com Nov 14
Reading Notes, October 2018 Oct 29
Dark Mode on the Web via OS-Level Preferences Oct 25
Netlibox: My Guest Post on Netlify’s Blog Oct 16
Reading Notes, September 2018 Sep 30
Reading Notes, August 2018 Aug 24
My Little Cabin in the Woods of Logo Integrity Aug 9
Choosing a Static Site Generator Aug 2
Reading Notes, July 2018 Jul 28
Reading Notes, June 2018 Jun 25
Detective Work for the App Icon Book Jun 19
Blog Redesign: Out with the Old, in with the Old May 22
Reading Notes, May 2018 May 4
A Short Perspective on Hiring Apr 13
Installing and Building an NPM Package from Github Apr 10
Writing as a Process for Iterative Problem Solving (and Thoughts on Structuring a Small Redux Project) Mar 23
Reading Notes, March 2018 Mar 13
URL Design and Automated Redirects in Jekyll Feb 23
Reading Notes, January 2018 Jan 5

2017

Creating iOS Icon Masks in the Browser Nov 27
The Value of Visual Design Nov 4
Reading Notes, October 2017 Oct 28
The World Wide Web of People at My Disposal Oct 2
Limitations in Software Aug 26
I Liked this Podcast Aug 16
Designing and Engineering Event Management for Timshel’s “Admin” Web Application Aug 11
Notes on “Functional Lite Javascript” by Kyle Simpson Jul 3
Notes from Fluent Conference Jun 28
Reading Notes, June 2017 Jun 22
Reading Notes, May 2017 May 9
Designing Integrations for the Admin Application at Timshel Apr 19
Stop Using the Term “Pixel Perfect”, Start Focusing on Experiences Apr 17
Reading Notes, April 2017 Apr 7
The Analog Web Mar 27
Designing Cross-Application Login Screens (and Business Relationships) Mar 8
Reading Notes, January 2017 Jan 31
The Art of the Side Project Jan 17
Migrating Away from Compass and Susy to Sass Exclusively Jan 11
Designing and Engineering Color Usage in Agent Portal Jan 6

2016

Redesigning and Engineering the UI/UX for Unauthenticated Users of Timshel’s “Admin” Dec 9
Text as UI Nov 24
Reading Notes, November 2016 Nov 18
Reading Notes, October 2016 Oct 1
SassMe v2.0 Sep 27
Reading Notes, September 2016 Sep 8
Reading Notes, July 2016 Aug 8
Paul Rand on Logos Jul 11
Arc90 “Work” Page Design Updates Jul 9
Designing and Developing the DCP Application May 17
Going the Extra Mile with Tasks and Feature Requests Mar 2
Designing and Building the Assignment Desk Application Jan 28

2015

Innovation Sales Sheet Dec 30
Assignment Desk Logo Dec 3
Reading Notes, December 2015 Dec 1
Reading Notes, November 2015 Nov 2
One Algorithm to Rule Them All Oct 17
Reading Notes, September 2015 Oct 5
Kindling Marketing Site 2.0 Sep 11
Reading Notes, August 2015 Aug 31
Designing Kindling’s Pricing Page Aug 26
A Web of People Jun 29
Skinning the Idea Poster Anew May 20
Conceiving Blog Post Artwork May 4
Everything But Visual Design Feb 5
Team Colors 2.0 Jan 16

2014

Words Have Meaning: Creating the “Let’s Talk Innovation” Page Nov 19
Designing a Successful Transaction Receipt Nov 4
Creating Apple Touch Icons Oct 28
Kindling Rubber Stamp Oct 23
Logo Integrity Brought into Focus Sep 2
Defining Beauty on the Web Mar 11
A Logo Is an Image, The Image of a Company Mar 3

2013

Benjamin Franklin, an Open Source Contributor? Dec 18
The Evolution of Creativity Nov 6
Wireframes and Gravity Oct 21
Ostentatious Design & Profanity Oct 14
The “Kinda-Sorta Looks Like the Internet” Internet Sep 26
Home Page Redesign of kindlingapp.com Sep 26
Automating Feelings Sep 23
Once Again, It’s About Putting the User First Aug 12
Workarounds to Variable Interpolation in Sass Jul 29
Things to Be Informed About in Life Jul 24
Preserving CSS Comments For Wordpress During Sass Compression Jul 22
Thoughts from “On Writing Well” Jul 15
Retrieving Recent Posts from Scriptogram in JSON Format Using PHP Jul 8
When Advertising Became About the Buyer, Not the Product Jun 27
Seemly Selectors Jun 11
Changes to max_upload_filesize not working in php.ini? Restart Apache! Jun 10
Scriptogram Logo in Vector Form (.svg) May 29
Stop Direct Spam Comments in Wordpress May 22
The Incredible (Frustrating) Potential of Google Glass May 17
Why Do We Sketch? May 15
An Analysis of Infinte Scrolling May 5
Unintended Visual Relationships Mar 26
Coming to Appreciate Art Mar 8
Team Color Codes Feb 19
Freebie Resources - Don’t Assume, Double Check Feb 12
Modularize Your PSDs by Embedding Them Inside Each Other Jan 31
Quick Change and the Web Jan 29
Miscellaneous Unicode Symbols, Font Stacks, and You Jan 21
Science Speaks: Good Typography = Good Mood Jan 8

2012

Said No Normal User, Ever. Dec 12
Calculate the Border Radius for iOS-Style Icons Using a Simple Ratio Dec 11
Reading Notes, November 2012 Dec 4
Safari 6 Tab Preview: Show Me More! (In Quantity, Not Size) Nov 30
Understanding Comes in Stages Nov 28