Gonna pivot to a performance consultant whose only job is to encourage people either 1) remove stuff, or 2) not do stuff at all.
Do you know what’s more performant than JS? No JS.
Do you know what’s more performant than this feature? No feature.
Do you know what’s more performant than _anything_? Nothing.
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Two good books I’ve read:
Richard Rhodes “The Making of the Atomic Bomb”. This covers the science and engineering of the bomb, from the discovery of splitting the atom up to the end of the war
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-making-of-the-atomic-bomb-richard-rhodes/7061381
“The Bomb: A Life” by Gerard DeGroot is a more fast paced, shorter version that covers more ground, including after the war, the hydrogen bomb, Cold War, etc.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-bomb-a-life-gerard-j-degroot/10871591
Niels Bohr was initially skeptical of being able to make an atom bomb, saying to come up with the material you’d have to turn an entire country into a factory.
Then when he came and saw the factories during the war and he told Teller:
“I told you it couldn’t be done without turning the whole country into a factory. You have done just that.”
For the Manhattan project, they took silver bars from the treasury, melted them down, and turned them into to wiring for the caulutrons and uranium isotope separation.
Almost all of it was melted back down and returned to the treasury after the war was over.
How much? 14,700 tons of silver.
About $15 billion dollars worth today
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Tokens for tokens for tokens.
Craft and Satisfaction, by @jimniels:
Writing a blog post.
About 80% of the way done and need to research something.
A quick Google search and the 2nd post from the top is a link to my own blog.
I click.
Oh wait, I already wrote this exact post ~1 year ago!
Return to editor, right click markdown file, "move to trash".
How's your day going?
📝 This talk from @alexpetros is like catnip for me — building with resiliency and longevity on the web. My notes:
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/notes-from-hundred-year-web-service/
📝 Ended up on a Google Doc from the Chrome team detailing how they think about breaking changes and it was an intriguing read. Took notes and published them on the blog.
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/notes-from-blink-principles-of-web-compat/
There’s a part of that has always wanted to learn how to maintain my own little db, but it always felt like that was a step too far. Stick with what I know, which is reading/writing files on disk. Plus plain text files don’t need a special app to peak into. But the ubiquity of SQLite kinda makes that advantage a wash
Not gonna lie, part of what makes me willing to take the dip is that I can ask absolute beginner questions to ChatGPT and it’ll give me an answer, like “how do I query all rows in a table?”
For the longest time, I’ve maintained my collection of icons as static JSON files on disk.
But I’m tempted to finally take all those individual files and put them into a SQLite database and manage that instead. Should I:
I gotta say, I hit way more “broken links” going into native apps than on the web.
Being deep linked into a native app feels like about a flip of the coin: half the time it works, the other half it doesn’t.
If a bug exists in prod, but nobody finds it before you unknowingly resolve it, did it really exist?
i am sorry, i cannot stop today with the html...
She's such a <div><a>
Full-stack Diveloper
Devs? More like Divs #amirite?
CSS stock ticker as a fallback, if HTML is taken by then.
Life goal:
- Start a company
- Go public
- Get the stock ticker HTML
- Die happy