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Nice work. I wonder how the experience would be in VR.

Great write up! Roughly how many Claude tokens are you using per month with this workflow? What’s your monthly API costs?

Also what do you mean by “I really want someone to solve this problem in a way that makes coding with an LLM a multiplayer game. Not a solo hacker experience.” ?

For software projects, I prefer to call them “lifelines” :-)

> I think what’s needed is a sort of, repository of patterns.

Agreed. I was thinking about a reference application to demonstrate those patterns.

Thanks for the link! I’ll check it out.

We’re using HTMX along with Alpine JS and a Python/Jinja2 backend in a commercial startup. So far, it’s working great. The UI is simple to code and we don’t have such a mental leap when moving from backend Python code to working on the UI. This is advantageous for us as we can prioritize hiring backend Python engineers, and don’t need to build out a team of frontend engineers just yet.

We don’t have to write very much JavaScript at all to achieve a fairly modern UI experience. I wish the error handling was better in HTMX. We had to write a fair amount of JavaScript just to handle errors and put user friendly error messages on the screen. Maybe this has improved?

I think there’s a great opportunity to attract more developers to this stack:

1. An open source reference app built using HTMX that shows the advantages of using HTMX particularly where it shines, along with best practices for building commercial quality solutions

2. VSCode/other editor plug-ins to improve the developer experience working with this stack (Alpine, HTMX, and Jinja)

I remember feeling similar when I was about your age. All of a sudden I looked around and, where I was spending my time, everyone was a lot younger and I felt out of place. I didn’t want to be the old guy in the room.

So I made changes. Big changes. Rearchitected my life, if you will. They were not easy. But I’ve learned a ton over the journey. I miss the old life, and I’m grateful for this life I made, worlds apart from where I was before. And I don’t think about how it could have been, because that’s not how it is.

Now I’m in a similar situation again. I’m evaluating what changes I want to make. I think a lot about where I’ve been and where I want to be in 10 years, which helps me shape my decision making.

But it’s the little voice inside that I have to pay real close attention to before I make any big change. When I feel out of touch with that little voice, I know I need to work on my spiritual connection.

It’s not an easy place to be feeling lost, out of place, not sure what to do. I know that feeling very well. I was feeling it yesterday like a ton of sand weighing on my soul.

But today’s a new day. And I’m feeling alive. Thank you for your post, and this chance to think through my own decision making. Carpe diem!