Dismissing an idea because it doesn’t work in your head is doing a disservice to the idea. (Same for dismissing someone else’s idea because it doesn’t work in your head.) The only way to truly know if an idea works is to test it. The gap between an idea and reality is the work. You can’t dismiss something as “not working” without doing the work. When collaborating with others, different ideas can be put forward which end up in competition with each other. We debate which is best, ...| Jim Nielsen’s Blog
I refreshed the little thing that let’s you navigate consistently between my inconsistent subdomains (video recording). Here’s the tl;dr on the update: I had to remove some features on each site to make this feel right.Takeaway: adding stuff is easy, removing stuff is hard. The element is a web component and not even under source control (🤫). I serve it directly from my cdn. If I want to make an update, I tweak the file on disk and re-deploy.Takeaway: cowboy codin’, yee-haw! Live fre...| Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Jason Fried writes in his post “Knives and battleships”: Specific tools and familiar ingredients combined in different ratios, different molds, for different purposes. Like a baker working from the same tight set of pantry ingredients to make a hundred distinct recipes. You wouldn't turn to them and say "enough with the butter, flour, sugar, baking powder, and eggs already!" Getting the same few things right in different ways is a career's worth of work. Mastery comes from a lifetime of p...| Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Conrad Irwin has an article on the Zed blog “Why LLMs Can't Really Build Software”. He says it boils down to: the distinguishing factor of effective engineers is their ability to build and maintain clear mental models We do this by: Building a mental model of what you want to do Building a mental model of what the code does Reducing the difference between the two It’s kind of an interesting observation about how we (as humans) problem solve vs. how we use LLMs to problem solve: With LLM...| Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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I’ve been reading listening to Poor Charlie’s Almanack which is a compilation of talks by Charlie Munger, legendary vice-chairman at Berkshire Hathaway. One thing Charlie talks about is what he calls “sit on your ass investing” which is the opposite of day trading. Rather than being in the market every day (chasing trends, reacting to fluctuations, and trying to time transactions) Charlie advocates spending most of your time “sitting on your ass”. That doesn’t mean you’re doin...| Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Here’s Jony Ive in his Stripe interview: What we make stands testament to who we are. What we make describes our values. It describes our preoccupations. It describes beautiful succinctly our preoccupation. I’d never really noticed the connection between these two words: occupation and preoccupation. What comes before occupation? Pre-occupation. What comes before what you do for a living? What you think about. What you’re preoccupied with. What you think about will drive you towards wha...| Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.| blog.jim-nielsen.com