Notices by Jim Nielsen (jimniels@mastodon.social)

If you love fiddling with static site generators and different ways of building simple sites, go give this a try.

I've got origami running on one of my personal sites in prod (soon to be two) and I’m already thinking which will be next...

It has its gotchas. But with more folks trying/using it, it'll only get better and better.

Jan's cooking something cool over there…
https://fosstodon.org/@JanMiksovsky/113516427582479669

Whenever a new tech comes onto the scene, like blockchain or AI, I always think of that scene from jurassic park.

They had just got to the island for the 1st time. And they stop and see their first dinosaur. And everyone is in absolute awe and wonder.

And then it cuts to this guy lol

📝 I messed up with git. But a gist saved me. And its comments section is an oasis in the desert of internet comments.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/gist-that-keeps-giving/

📝 With the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons, many apps lost an opportunity to explore what their icon could’ve been. Instead they took their logo & plopped it on a white background.

I put together a small collection of visually interesting alternatives.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/big-sur-ification-of-macos-icons/

📝 I got asked, “How can web components render before JS?” So I walked through the idea with a simplified example.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/html-web-components-an-example/

The feeling you first have with git is you’re not smart enough to use it. Then you get older and more experienced and realize you really are not smart enough to use.

Lol I can relate with @eric

https://ericwbailey.website/published/a-year-at-github/