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Pysentation: CLI for displaying Python presentations

79 points by mimseyedi 3y ago

doctorpangloss 3y ago
This is a great project. Is it bad that I look at every library now, no matter how awesome, and think "Well this didn't exist on or before September 2021, so do I really wanna learn this?" I mean surely an interface of the form blah blah blah, "Now, take the content and turn it into slides using a document creation API" is the best right? Should every library include a documentation endpoint for Scraper Plugin of the right context length? Is prompt injection an attack, or an opportunity? This is new ground for adoption.
- mixedmath 3y ago
  I don't quite understand. What happened in September 2021?
  - rhd 3y ago
    Chat gpt learning cutoff
    - mcmcmc 3y ago
      Wow, that’s an incredibly lazy and short-sighted take from the GP then. The training set will definitely get updated at some point… or you could just ask Bing, or Bard
      - aspyct 3y ago
        Or just actually learn the library.
      - gjvc 3y ago
        Agree. This is telegraphing the prospect of people reduce their efforts in favour of using LLM systems, and in time the snake starts eating its tail
- cjonas 3y ago
  This is a real effect where newer (and maybe objectively better) tech is now at a disadvantage because LLM hasn't been trained on it (or there aren't enough examples to yield good results). Of course being an "early adopter" has always been a challenge, but I suspect the lack of LLM capabilities will slow adoption even more.
clircle 3y ago
Maybe I’m not the target audience, but what does this solve that powerpoint doesn’t?
- deleted 3y ago
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- BiteCode_dev 3y ago
  Git commit, git diff.
  - deleted 3y ago
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  - kingforaday 3y ago
    Not sure this is a great answer anymore. O365/Powerpoint supports multi-user collaboration, change detection and automatic version control; however, no judgement on the overall efficacy.
    - 616c 3y ago
      Sync is poor and colleagues and I broke at least two presentations soon before preventing them so we all agreed to stop using PowerPoint and O365 this way. Now we use marp to great success see in another comment.
  - clircle 3y ago
    Which definitely does not help me makes slides...
- faizshah 3y ago
  What does Pepsi solve that Coke doesn’t?
  - BenFeldman1930 3y ago
    Sega does what Nintendon't.
bjourne 3y ago
Cool stuff. This would solve many of my use cases of beamer if it had support for animations. E.g to click through each step of an algorithm for sorting a list in place.
kstrauser 3y ago
For a different approach, but still in the handwavey space of presentation apps that are actually pleasant to use, I'm a big fan of iA Presenter (https://ia.net/presenter https://ia.net/presenter). Short version: write Markdown, then Presenter makes it look nice. Export your deck to a PDF when you're done so you can pass it around. Write CSS for styling, or use their online theme builder to do it for you. And while it's commercial software, it has a pay-once option that I instantly purchased.
- 616c 3y ago
  We've been using a non-commercial alternative, marp, at work to great success and make slides where PowerPoint usually sucks: code blocks (we present on our data format frequently). https://marp.app/ https://marp.app/
  - kstrauser 3y ago
    Oh, nifty!
faizshah 3y ago
I love this, seems really great for giving presentations on prototypes. Is there any reason why this only works for Python? Seems like you could just give it a variable to specify the comment delimiter and a variable for the syntax highlighting and then use it for any language right?
circularfoyers 3y ago
I've been using https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat previously, but this looks like a worthy alternative. Nice work, I'll have try this out :)

79 points by mimseyedi 3y ago

This is a great project. Is it bad that I look at every library now, no matter how awesome, and think "Well this didn't exist on or before September 2021, so do I really wanna learn this?" I mean surely an interface of the form blah blah blah, "Now, take the content and turn it into slides using a document creation API" is the best right? Should every library include a documentation endpoint for Scraper Plugin of the right context length? Is prompt injection an attack, or an opportunity? This is new ground for adoption.

mixedmath 3y ago
I don't quite understand. What happened in September 2021?
- rhd 3y ago
  Chat gpt learning cutoff
  - mcmcmc 3y ago
    Wow, that’s an incredibly lazy and short-sighted take from the GP then. The training set will definitely get updated at some point… or you could just ask Bing, or Bard
    - aspyct 3y ago
      Or just actually learn the library.
    - gjvc 3y ago
      Agree. This is telegraphing the prospect of people reduce their efforts in favour of using LLM systems, and in time the snake starts eating its tail
cjonas 3y ago
This is a real effect where newer (and maybe objectively better) tech is now at a disadvantage because LLM hasn't been trained on it (or there aren't enough examples to yield good results). Of course being an "early adopter" has always been a challenge, but I suspect the lack of LLM capabilities will slow adoption even more.

clircle 3y ago

Maybe I’m not the target audience, but what does this solve that powerpoint doesn’t?

deleted 3y ago
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BiteCode_dev 3y ago
Git commit, git diff.
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
- kingforaday 3y ago
  Not sure this is a great answer anymore. O365/Powerpoint supports multi-user collaboration, change detection and automatic version control; however, no judgement on the overall efficacy.
  - 616c 3y ago
    Sync is poor and colleagues and I broke at least two presentations soon before preventing them so we all agreed to stop using PowerPoint and O365 this way. Now we use marp to great success see in another comment.
- clircle 3y ago
  Which definitely does not help me makes slides...
faizshah 3y ago
What does Pepsi solve that Coke doesn’t?
- BenFeldman1930 3y ago
  Sega does what Nintendon't.

bjourne 3y ago

Cool stuff. This would solve many of my use cases of beamer if it had support for animations. E.g to click through each step of an algorithm for sorting a list in place.

kstrauser 3y ago

For a different approach, but still in the handwavey space of presentation apps that are actually pleasant to use, I'm a big fan of iA Presenter (https://ia.net/presenter https://ia.net/presenter). Short version: write Markdown, then Presenter makes it look nice. Export your deck to a PDF when you're done so you can pass it around. Write CSS for styling, or use their online theme builder to do it for you. And while it's commercial software, it has a pay-once option that I instantly purchased.

616c 3y ago
We've been using a non-commercial alternative, marp, at work to great success and make slides where PowerPoint usually sucks: code blocks (we present on our data format frequently). https://marp.app/ https://marp.app/
- kstrauser 3y ago
  Oh, nifty!

faizshah 3y ago

I love this, seems really great for giving presentations on prototypes. Is there any reason why this only works for Python? Seems like you could just give it a variable to specify the comment delimiter and a variable for the syntax highlighting and then use it for any language right?

circularfoyers 3y ago

I've been using https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat previously, but this looks like a worthy alternative. Nice work, I'll have try this out :)