Edit Feb 4 5:16 PM: Skip to the bottom if you just want the article
It has been brought to my attention that rehosting someone else's content without asking them — even if you link to the original content — is not exactly polite. I did not ask the author before I rehosted his article, and while I feel I should have known better than to that, it just didn't occurr to me. It's not exactly plagarism, but it's still wrong on some level. I have reached out to him now about hosting it here publically, and if he says it's alright, I'll put it back.
You can find the original article here, on his site, and on his Medium page.
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Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.
Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.