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What're people using tools like this for? I see the usage surely when demonstrating something in the terminal - and many times used for showcasing projects and

by dpflan 8y ago

What're people using tools like this for? I see the usage surely when demonstrating something in the terminal - and many times used for showcasing projects and tools. Are you using the recordings for other purposes, like to document work and share progress with your team + manager for instance for work you're doing during a sprint (good for demo'ing things at the end of the sprint too).

joombaga 8y ago
It's good for right-way vs wrong-way demonstrations. If I just copy the text out of my terminal and say "this is how we used to do it; this is how we should do it/will do it now" and paste it in a jira ticket, not many people will take the time to read and understand. Gifs are more accessible I guess.
- nomel 8y ago
  Maybe it's just me, but I can't stand having to wait to watch someone slowly type something when all I want to to is know the command or understand what some output should look like. Similarly, I've never seen this sort of thing used professionally, just on blogs and project demos.
  - hutzlibu 8y ago
    It really should have a timelinecontrol ..
mikekchar 8y ago
I did an experiment a couple of years ago where I wanted to see if I could write code 1 pomodoro a day. I recorded myself in asciinema. It's basically several 25 minute pomodoros of me implementing Core Wars (a VM for machine language programs that battle against each other) in Ruby. I hadn't written Ruby in a while and I was more interested in playing experimenting with a TODO list for being efficient with such a small amount of code per day, so the code is not really fantastic. However, if you are interested I did about 60 pomodoros, I think: https://mikekchar.github.io/core-wars-kata/ https://mikekchar.github.io/core-wars-kata/ It's a super old version of asciinema (I haven't bothered to update it). Also, I recommend increasing the playback speed using the '>' key a couple of times so you don't have to suffer from my pathetically slow typing.
Fnoord 8y ago
The most obvious example is small videos of terminal. That is to say, better quality than GIF and smaller size than MP4 and the like. SVG is also lossless. One thing you could do with this is making SVGs from applications such as htop (or _any_ terminal application), and then serving those over WWW. You can then view those in a web browser by going to a certain date (some HTML/JS would be used to neatly organize them in a good UI, or allowing things such as looping and going forward or backward, but you could also use data analysis on the SVGs). Sure, you could export log data and then use MRTG/RRDTool or something like that and it'd work just as well. My point is that you need support for that (via e.g. SNMP); with Termtosvg you abstract all terminal applications.

by dpflan 8y ago

joombaga 8y ago

It's good for right-way vs wrong-way demonstrations. If I just copy the text out of my terminal and say "this is how we used to do it; this is how we should do it/will do it now" and paste it in a jira ticket, not many people will take the time to read and understand. Gifs are more accessible I guess.

nomel 8y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I can't stand having to wait to watch someone slowly type something when all I want to to is know the command or understand what some output should look like. Similarly, I've never seen this sort of thing used professionally, just on blogs and project demos.
- hutzlibu 8y ago
  It really should have a timelinecontrol ..

mikekchar 8y ago

I did an experiment a couple of years ago where I wanted to see if I could write code 1 pomodoro a day. I recorded myself in asciinema. It's basically several 25 minute pomodoros of me implementing Core Wars (a VM for machine language programs that battle against each other) in Ruby. I hadn't written Ruby in a while and I was more interested in playing experimenting with a TODO list for being efficient with such a small amount of code per day, so the code is not really fantastic. However, if you are interested I did about 60 pomodoros, I think: https://mikekchar.github.io/core-wars-kata/ https://mikekchar.github.io/core-wars-kata/ It's a super old version of asciinema (I haven't bothered to update it). Also, I recommend increasing the playback speed using the '>' key a couple of times so you don't have to suffer from my pathetically slow typing.

Fnoord 8y ago

The most obvious example is small videos of terminal. That is to say, better quality than GIF and smaller size than MP4 and the like. SVG is also lossless. One thing you could do with this is making SVGs from applications such as htop (or _any_ terminal application), and then serving those over WWW. You can then view those in a web browser by going to a certain date (some HTML/JS would be used to neatly organize them in a good UI, or allowing things such as looping and going forward or backward, but you could also use data analysis on the SVGs). Sure, you could export log data and then use MRTG/RRDTool or something like that and it'd work just as well. My point is that you need support for that (via e.g. SNMP); with Termtosvg you abstract all terminal applications.