Jim Nielsen
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
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- Oct 1, 2026
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- Top 10M sites
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- Jul 31, 2026
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Dear Software Makers (opens the original)
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Marques Brownlee just released a video essay titled âDear YouTubeâ. He talks about how YouTube is going to start shipping this new feature where makers can essentially publish different âvariantsâ of their videos and see which performs best (an A/B test). Which immediately begs a lot of questions. Brownlee voices his: Itâs pretty wild when you think about it. I mean, imagine sending someone a link, âCheck out this cool video!â And at that point youâre basically crossing your fing
Donât Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables (opens the original)
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Speaking of being on the internet and finding things that make you go, âHey! Itâs not just me!â I scrolled across this skeet from Tyler Gaw: I just dug to the bottom of my Big Box of Cables to find two cables that I needed for something. They've been in the bottom for 10+ years. So, "when are you ever gonna use these?" was today. Don't ever let anyone take your Big Box of Cables away. So inspired, in fact, that I decided I was gonna do something about it. Something that would make me forev
The AI Aesthetic (opens the original)
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Every zeitgeist comes with new design idioms unique to its challenges. Many of them disappear as fads change, but others bake themselves into deeper parts of existing software interaction paradigms. For example, thereâs the hamburger menu (â¡) which saw a proliferation during the rise of mobile due to the constraints around screen size. It has since spread to many other parts of software interaction design and will likely remain prevalent for a long time as a terse way of indicating âmore m
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