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I was intrigued to see how the demo GIF in the README was generated: https://github.com/tamnd/kage/blob/01e75b87ecc893bbba7943c630610112b211964d/docs/static/dem

by simonw 5mo ago

I was intrigued to see how the demo GIF in the README was generated: https://github.com/tamnd/kage/blob/01e75b87ecc893bbba7943c630610112b211964d/docs/static/demo.gif https://github.com/tamnd/kage/blob/01e75b87ecc893bbba7943c63... Turns out it's using another project by the same author: https://github.com/tamnd/ascii-gif https://github.com/tamnd/ascii-gif The script used for the demo is at https://github.com/tamnd/kage/blob/01e75b87ecc893bbba7943c630610112b211964d/docs/demo/kage.tape https://github.com/tamnd/kage/blob/01e75b87ecc893bbba7943c63... and has a comment showing how to run it: ascii-gif render docs/demo/kage.tape -o docs/static/demo.gif Looks like it's an opinionated wrapper around https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs

alterom 5mo ago
FYI, on other platforms (Windows/MacOS), LiceCAP is a fantastic tool to record screen into compact GIFs by the author of Winamp and Reaper DAW: https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ https://www.cockos.com/licecap/
jubilanti 5mo ago
Have you heard the good news about the terminal savior asciinema -- https://asciinema.org/ https://asciinema.org/
- embedding-shape 5mo ago
  It's a cool tool/platform, but very different. Asciinema tries to make the "multimedia" itself better by making it actual text instead of being video/images, while the CLI command above turns actual text into multimedia supported by platforms already. Both are useful, both have their use cases :)
stavros 5mo ago
VHS is fantastic for scripting cli video generation.
vqtska 5mo ago
You can also do an animated svg which is way smaller than a gif because it's just text keyframes (https://github.com/vytskalt/pseudoc/blob/main/assets/factorial.svg https://github.com/vytskalt/pseudoc/blob/main/assets/factori...)
- embedding-shape 5mo ago
  Very cool, never thought of that! "way smaller" is almost an understatement, when it's 50kb :P Neat that it loads in GitHub READMEs as well, which is probably a large reason people use .gif today.
- Noumenon72 5mo ago
  How can you do it? I don't see an SVG output from ascii-gif.
  - LocoPadre 5mo ago
    it might be this: https://github.com/mrmarble/termsvg https://github.com/mrmarble/termsvg
  - vqtska 5mo ago
    I used a different project, https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli
tamnd 5mo ago
I have a bunch of opinionated/personal-use binaries like this in my $HOME/bin/, like delete-all-npm, clean-rust-cache, download-youtube-playlist, and get-markdown <url>. It feels good, and I don't need to remember any commands. Sometimes my coding agent can figure out how to call some of those tools too ;))
stellamariesays 5mo ago
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by simonw 5mo ago

alterom 5mo ago

FYI, on other platforms (Windows/MacOS), LiceCAP is a fantastic tool to record screen into compact GIFs by the author of Winamp and Reaper DAW: https://www.cockos.com/licecap/ https://www.cockos.com/licecap/

jubilanti 5mo ago

Have you heard the good news about the terminal savior asciinema -- https://asciinema.org/ https://asciinema.org/

embedding-shape 5mo ago
It's a cool tool/platform, but very different. Asciinema tries to make the "multimedia" itself better by making it actual text instead of being video/images, while the CLI command above turns actual text into multimedia supported by platforms already. Both are useful, both have their use cases :)

stavros 5mo ago

VHS is fantastic for scripting cli video generation.

vqtska 5mo ago

You can also do an animated svg which is way smaller than a gif because it's just text keyframes (https://github.com/vytskalt/pseudoc/blob/main/assets/factorial.svg https://github.com/vytskalt/pseudoc/blob/main/assets/factori...)

embedding-shape 5mo ago
Very cool, never thought of that! "way smaller" is almost an understatement, when it's 50kb :P Neat that it loads in GitHub READMEs as well, which is probably a large reason people use .gif today.
Noumenon72 5mo ago
How can you do it? I don't see an SVG output from ascii-gif.
- LocoPadre 5mo ago
  it might be this: https://github.com/mrmarble/termsvg https://github.com/mrmarble/termsvg
- vqtska 5mo ago
  I used a different project, https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli

tamnd 5mo ago

I have a bunch of opinionated/personal-use binaries like this in my $HOME/bin/, like delete-all-npm, clean-rust-cache, download-youtube-playlist, and get-markdown <url>. It feels good, and I don't need to remember any commands. Sometimes my coding agent can figure out how to call some of those tools too ;))

stellamariesays 5mo ago

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