Posts and notes from Nick Simson

I decided to switch things up and use a display font for the main headings (h1 in HTML) on my website.

Bookmarked A Pattern Language Index.

Bookmarked barnsworthburning.net by Nick Trombley.

Q: “Why would anybody start a website?”

I stumbled upon Chris Glass’ website, which has been around for a long time, but still new to me.

Bookmarked Integrando mi diario musical: Mostrando mis Crucial Tracks en mi sitio by L.

Rob Weychert’s About page, on his recently re-launched V7 personal site: I love the web, but I don’t love what’s become of it.

From the last part of Courtney’s People & Blogs interview: …There’s no such thing as “no politics.”

Bookmarked All the concerns that make you a boring developer by Dave Rupert.

Crucial Tracks is one of my new favorite things on the web.

Jay Hoffmann asks “Do blogs need to be so lonely?”

Bix Frankonis, on Blogging Romance, and the Summer’s Last Messenger of Misery : Not having comments is not somehow anti-communitarian, because any given blogger is always and forever entirely free to write a response on their own blog.

Bookmarked John Paul Ringo George by Experimental Jetset.

This summer, I came up on a milestone: one year since purchasing an omg.lol address.

If we already have superscript text, why not ‘duperscript’?

Brandon, on forming communities: When we are conditioned towards exclusion, we need to specifically work towards inclusion.

Mike Monteiro, “How to lose a child”: We used to call this kind of loss “unimaginable.”

Ethan Marcotte, on the U.S.

The artsy web bookmarking site Are.na commissioned Dinamo type foundry to make a revival typeface based off Arial.

I had an interesting chat with Pete Millspaugh about domain names yesterday.

This post is my entry for August’s IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by Marisabel.

I spend a lot of time thinking about what better collaboration looks like between design and development teams, and got to see a bit of effective collaboration in action at work today.

Cobb answering the question ‘Who’s a blog for?’

I have already seen two photos of laptops bearing the sticker I sent out via U.S.

Depending on how tired I am on Wednesday evening, how easily I can get my kid to bed, and whether I have a work meeting (cameras off, thankfully) at 7:00 am the next day, I am an infrequent presence at the virtual Home Brew Website Club.

Bookmarked The Prodigal Techbro by Maria Farrell.

Naz Hamid writing about his new project Letter Club: Not physical letters, but digital letters that arrive with traditional mail’s rhythm.

I got some fun laptop stickers printed recently.

Bookmarked Evaluating AI by Ben Werdmuller.

Maxwell is hosting the IndieWeb Carnival this month: I’m the host for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, and the theme is totems: items of great personal, spiritual, or religious meaning, which may serve as the emblem or symbol of a group of people.

Celebrating our fifteenth wedding anniversary today with Eleanor.

Bookmarked JavaScript dos and donts by Mu-An Chiou.

olu.online: no. no technology is (un)natural. no technology is inevitable. no implementation is made without a human decision somewhere in the chain.

Salma Alam-Taylor, Why Women in Tech isn’t enough: Why are the statistics not showing much improvement despite countless initiatives surrounding diversity being created, and in particular events, awards, and “safe” spaces for “Women in Tech”?

Did some more reading about 1995 again, this time three pieces by Jay Hoffmann: 1995 Was the Most Important Year for the Web.

Who is the Bob Ross of the indie web?

J.B.

Bookmarked Why visual website builders didn’t take off (YouTube) by Salma Alam-Naylor.

Jason Koebler, 404 Media: “The Media’s Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work” (paywall/email-wall): AI is a tool (sorry!)

Bruce Crumley, “Why Hype May Be Harming AI’s Reputation and Workplace Use Rates” (Inc.

wow hard to believe it’s only been a year since we stopped buying stickers from one dude in upstate new york

I recently had a bit of a revelation: Every place I’ve lived for more than one year was featured prominently on The Simpsons.

Bookmarked Looking elsewhere. by Robb Owen.

Bookmarked When Figma Starts Designing Us by Rune Madsen.

Bookmarked Expert Generalists by Unmesh Joshi, Gitanjali Venkatraman, and Martin Fowler.

Bookmarked Was my IAAP Certification worth it?

It’s just another tool built on stolen text and images and eugenics ideology using up water and heating our planet and losing billions of dollars in the process You know, kind of like a screwdriver?

You can read my People and Blogs interview today.

One of the great moments of each day with our three-year-old is the bedtime routine.

June 2025 was my very first time hosting the IndieWeb Carnival.