Neil Osman's Blog https://www.neilosman.com A developer's notebook — things I build, break, and learn from. en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:26:25 GMT Building a zero-dependency web component from scratch https://www.neilosman.com/posts/web-component-from-scratch/ https://www.neilosman.com/posts/web-component-from-scratch/ The first time I read the Custom Elements spec I closed the tab immediately. It felt like ceremony for something that should be simple. Six months later I came Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Logic of Design Revolutions https://www.neilosman.com/posts/design-revolutions/ https://www.neilosman.com/posts/design-revolutions/ In 1962, Thomas Kuhn published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and quietly dismantled one of science's most flattering self-portraits. Science, Kuhn arg Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT We’ve Been Trying to Teach Machines to Read Since 2001. Here’s What Finally Worked. https://www.neilosman.com/posts/reading-machines/ https://www.neilosman.com/posts/reading-machines/ Around 2001, Tim Berners-Lee published a paper in Scientific American that felt, at the time, less like a technical proposal and more like a promise. The web, h Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT