A developer recreates the Canon Cat's unique text-based interface in a web app called Jasper, exploring how user conventions emerge in minimal systems. The Canon Cat featured a single text stream with no windows, menus, or file hierarchy, relying on "leap" keys for navigation. Through extended use, the author discovers how

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JasperImplementationMeritsExtending these ideasImmediacy of a typewriter

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