About

Hello, I’m Jim Nielsen.

As Stephen King said, writing is refined thinking. This is where I refine my thinking.

Also, FWIW: I take lots of notes as I read, they’re like blog post seedlings. I keep them at notes.jim-nielsen.com

Stats

Some stats around my blog. They don’t mean anything — it’s just fun to output numbers from the dataset that is my blog. Read into this what you will, as Homer Simpson once said, “You can come up with statistics to prove anything. 40% of all people know that.”

Writing

• Years Blogging 13
• Posts 627
• Words 496,266
• Tags 55
• External Links 2,806
• Internal Links 351

Posts / Words Per Year

• 2012 5 / ~2k
• 2013 29 / ~10k
• 2014 7 / ~6k
• 2015 14 / ~17k
• 2016 12 / ~16k
• 2017 20 / ~29k
• 2018 26 / ~38k
• 2019 45 / ~57k
• 2020 65 / ~66k
• 2021 85 / ~71k
• 2022 121 / ~90k
• 2023 100 / ~52k
• 2024 98 / ~49k

Top Tags View all

1. readingNotes 67
2. engineering 61
3. designProcess 31
4. css 31
5. iconGalleries 23
6. myBlog 21
7. bookNotes 20
8. netlify 18
9. tips 13
10. design 10

Top External Links View all

1. twitter.com 277
2. github.com 191
3. adactio.com 92
4. youtube.com 74
5. iosicongallery.com 66
6. mozilla.org 66
7. wikipedia.org 53
8. css-tricks.com 52
9. stackoverflow.com 46
10. daverupert.com 45

Top Internal Links View all

1. /2021/writing-in-2020-and-2021/ 9
2. /2020/switching-from-react-to-js-for-templating/ 6
3. /2019/netlify-public-folder-part-i-what/ 5
4. /2022/joining-remix/ 5
5. /2022/the-web-beyond-browsers/ 5
6. /2019/netlify-public-folder-part-ii-why/ 4
7. /2022/notes-from-in-and-out-of-style/ 4
8. /2022/stats-page/ 4
9. /2023/css-wishlist/ 4
10. /2019/generating-shades-of-color-using-css-variables/ 3