Posts and notes from Nick Simson

Me and my picture in GQ is about as out of place as a pork chop at a bar mitzvah.

Likes DigitalOcean has $3 million for DHH and nothing for CSS-Tricks by Keith.

Unless I find several more tiny stickers, I think I’m done decorating this laptop.

Likes CSS is Still Awesome by Jason Santa Maria.

Likes A proposal for new Netflix content rating icons by Eric Bailey.

Cartoon Brew presents Exhibits A Through P: Wile E.

It look a few years of living in East Tennessee to fully comprehend what Dolly meant to the people.

Likes Little Websites Everywhere. by Michelle Barker.

I created and deployed a human.json file to my site today, after being aware of the concept for a while.

ZieherSmith gallery has a great looking baseball-themed show up called Augie Garrido or Gonfalons for the Grand Old Game.

Likes WEBMASTER@ a manifesto for everyone by Brennan Kenneth Brown.

Last week I was able to attend an informative online session on creating a digital accessibility program, presented by Jesse Loesberg.

Took my first trip to Taos with the family this past weekend.

Bookmarked Vladimir Nabokov’s pale fire: the lost ‘father of all hypertext demos’?

Raphael Magarik, on the Jewish Museum’s Paul Klee exhibit: [Walter] Benjamin would have understood all too well his text’s appropriation as a nationalist trophy.

Likes 95 reasons for having your own website by Elliott Cost (Bell Kiosk).

Bookmarked On CSS baseline and vertical rythms by doriane (ungual.digital).

Fun things can happen when you name your stylesheet interim.css.

I enjoyed Rob Weychert’s writeup on building his listening diary, from Last.fm data going back to 2005.

Bookmarked Modern CSS theming with light-dark(), contrast-color(), and style queries by Una Kravets.

Bookmarked Time-based background colour transitions with Temporal and CSS color-mix by Sophie Koonin.

Bookmarked How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports by Dan Carr (Reverb Machine).

Likes Navigating the maze by Chris Ferdinandi.

Likes An American Playlist by The New Yorker Critics at Large Podcast.

Introducing this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, Joe connects the dots between cosplay and personal style, in a way I hadn’t given enough consideration before.

Dave Smyth, on the hidden costs of LLM problem-solving: This isn’t a new scenario for professionals to navigate: it’s normal for people to make suggestions and there to be some back-and-forth over what the right approach is.

Earlier this week I read Kyle Chayka’s latest for The New Yorker, called “The A.I.

Bookmarked Warbler by David Jonathan Ross.

Likes Do I belong in tech anymore?

Zelda, 2015 – 2026.

Eric Bailey, on the case for an accessibility designer vibe coding when all his coworkers are also vibe coding: I am a person existing inside of layered, interconnected, and dysfunctional systems.

Here’s a sticker I slapped on a container we would keep dog food in.

As the owner of a ragged Knicks jersey from 1999 (which no longer fits me), I should be in a celebratory mood today.

Likes It doesn’t matter if it works by Henry (from online).

Likes Lone Piñon’s Fight to Save New Mexico’s Local Sounds From Extinction by Brad Sanders (Bandcamp Daily).

Bookmarked Hey Arnold!

Likes To my students. by Brent A.

Bookmarked Trying to Fail.

Bookmarked The Website Redesign Handbook by Marc Jenkins (16by9).

I’m listening to the latest release by Marisa Anderson, The Anthology Of UnAmerican Folk Music.

The Savannah Bananas and the Banana Ball League have resurrected the Indianapolis Clowns.

I truly appreciate Tracy Durnell’s “Letting things build”, a reflection on a year and a half of more focused reading leading to her digital aura series posted to her website.

Likes Making a mark. by Michelle Barker.

Q: “Who are the people?”

One of the best descriptions of Mets fandom I’ve seen this year, from FanGraphs’ 2026 ZiPS Projections posted by Dan Szymborski in January: The Mets are a bit like an intellectual character in a 19th Century Russian novel.

Bookmarked North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns by Rick Aschmann.

Bookmarked Spring 2026 Bootcamp by Bad Website Club.

Bookmarked Under the hood of MDN’s new frontend by Leo McArdle.

Likes That’s Home.

I couldn’t remember the last rock show I attended.