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The author clearly loves coding more than the output from coding. I'm thinking harder than ever and so grateful I can finally think hard about the output I really want rather than how to resolve bugs or figure out how to install some new dependency.

I'm curious to see his mise tasks. He lists a few of them near the end but I'm not sure what his LLM CLI is. Is that an actual tool or is he using it as a placeholder for "insert your LLM CLI tool here"?

I built an online computer store for my employer in late '94. It never went anywhere because the guy I worked for kept saying "What are you building this for? Nobody will ever put their credit card into the internet." We were making sales but they didn't have the vision to keep it up-to-date so it died on the vine.

https://github.com/steveclarke/vintage-online-store

At the time there were only two other online stores that I knew of - Internet.net and egghead.com.

I come from Eastern Canada (the island province of Newfoundland, to be exact), where we speak very quickly with a unique dialect that is highly abbreviated. (for example, "What are you doing?" becomes "whattayat?") I find it painfully slow to listen to non-Newfoundlanders speak. Happiest day of my professional life was finding out how to speed up YouTube videos. Default setting for any conference/instructional video is now 1.5-2x speed to just keep things moving.

Thanks for this link! I was trying to remember the predecessor to ASP while watching the Jobs video. I hoped that one of the others might have contained an ASP demo, but never realized they would be still demoing IDC. I recall the pace of change being incredibly fast, as you said.

I was experimenting with IDC for a client project at the time but quickly switched to ASP as soon as the beta became available.

Here's an internet store I wrote around that time (1994-1996):

https://github.com/steveclarke/vintage-online-store

I wrote it just on a whim for the computer sales company I was working for at the time. I had the store fully working and taking orders -- it just needed to be kept up to date. The feedback I got back from the owners at the time was, "Why are you making this? It's just a fad. Nobody will ever put their credit card number into the Internet." So the online store died on the vine.

Interesting to see an article hit front page of HN about my home province. I live very near the area that this story references. I have a 'Screech In' mobile app in the prototype phase, expecting a launch early next year. The app will help facilitate the many screech in ceremonies that happen throughout the year - and especially in the busy summer tourism season.