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I don't have a blog (medium or anything) so unfortunately I don't have a use for this, but I LOVED the gif. It wasn't an attempt to show "how easy it is to do w

I don't have a blog (medium or anything) so unfortunately I don't have a use for this, but I LOVED the gif. It wasn't an attempt to show "how easy it is to do with one command" but rather a real flow of how it all goes, I appreciate it, well done!

restingrobot 7y ago
While I think the usage of a gif is awesome, I am a huge fan of actually allowing people to see what is happening. The purpose of the gif was to show how it works, but he moved so fast I could barely read anything or follow him.
- rootkea 7y ago
  > he moved so fast I could barely read anything or follow him. Same here. So 1. I downloaded the gif 2. ffmpeg -i screencast.gif foo.mp4 Now watching in vlc at decreased playback speed. (Press `-`)
ukyrgf 7y ago
The thing is, it's a command line tool that requires the user to go out and manually do just about everything. Export the files, set up the repo, create a Netlify account, configure everything there, hook it into GitHub, etc. In the end, all the tool really does is convert files to Markdown and then use Gatsby as an SSG. If you already had the knowledge to do everything else, why not just do that yourself and not be stuck with somebody else's opinionated choices?
- tobr 7y ago
  I’ve built a few sites with Gatsby and Netlify, so I might qualify as having “the knowledge to do everything else”. Haven’t tried the tool, but I can’t imagine that I would get the end result of the GIF in less than a day if I had to figure it all out on my own. There’s a lot of decisions and research and little hiccups to get through in a thing like this. And even if you use the tool, it looks like you have every opportunity to do it your own way if you want to.
laacz 7y ago
The one of many problems with gifs is that you can't pause or rewind them.
- quickthrower2 7y ago
  That problem could easily be solved by browsers though? Treat an animated gif like an mp4
  - jamaicahest 7y ago
    Or just skip the GIF and create an MP4 file? No need to try and shoehorn GIF into what MP4 can do perfectly well.
    - StaringFrog 7y ago
      Yes... except that you can't embed a video in github README
- Seirdy 7y ago
  mpv has builtin support for gifs via ffmpeg.

restingrobot 7y ago

While I think the usage of a gif is awesome, I am a huge fan of actually allowing people to see what is happening. The purpose of the gif was to show how it works, but he moved so fast I could barely read anything or follow him.

rootkea 7y ago
> he moved so fast I could barely read anything or follow him. Same here. So 1. I downloaded the gif 2. ffmpeg -i screencast.gif foo.mp4 Now watching in vlc at decreased playback speed. (Press `-`)

ukyrgf 7y ago

The thing is, it's a command line tool that requires the user to go out and manually do just about everything. Export the files, set up the repo, create a Netlify account, configure everything there, hook it into GitHub, etc. In the end, all the tool really does is convert files to Markdown and then use Gatsby as an SSG. If you already had the knowledge to do everything else, why not just do that yourself and not be stuck with somebody else's opinionated choices?

tobr 7y ago
I’ve built a few sites with Gatsby and Netlify, so I might qualify as having “the knowledge to do everything else”. Haven’t tried the tool, but I can’t imagine that I would get the end result of the GIF in less than a day if I had to figure it all out on my own. There’s a lot of decisions and research and little hiccups to get through in a thing like this. And even if you use the tool, it looks like you have every opportunity to do it your own way if you want to.

laacz 7y ago

The one of many problems with gifs is that you can't pause or rewind them.

quickthrower2 7y ago
That problem could easily be solved by browsers though? Treat an animated gif like an mp4
- jamaicahest 7y ago
  Or just skip the GIF and create an MP4 file? No need to try and shoehorn GIF into what MP4 can do perfectly well.
  - StaringFrog 7y ago
    Yes... except that you can't embed a video in github README
Seirdy 7y ago
mpv has builtin support for gifs via ffmpeg.