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Wow very terminal doge

22 points by thiderman 13y ago

SnakeSupply 13y ago
What did you use for the terminal (shibe) art?
- thiderman 13y ago
  https://github.com/rossy2401/img2xterm https://github.com/rossy2401/img2xterm It's pretty easy to use. The problem is usually to create good input for it. I spent roughly an hour in GIMP just tweaking the original doge.png and trying to get good dithering for the colors.
  - antonios 13y ago
    What's that font in the terminal? Inconsolata?
    - thiderman 13y ago
      It is indeed!
  - SnakeSupply 13y ago
    This is worth a few good giggles from my friends so good job! Just a few questions after peeking through the source: how long did it take you? Why is it so much more complicated than it seems on first impression? What was the hardest part?
    - thiderman 13y ago
      The initial code work was probably not even an hour from initial idea to actually having random colored strings and a test shibe. Then I spent some time tweaking the image to be better, as already mentioned. I never felt it looked complicated. The code is not even 300 lines, and at least I feel that the abstraction is all right. I wrote the code to be flexible, and because of that, adding piping to stdout was really simple. What parts of the code do you find complicated? The hardest part was getting the Python packaging right, haha. It was difficult to get the doge.txt file distributed in the package in a path that would work both when installed to site-packages and that would work whilst developing. I have since started doing more Python packaging for my other projects (I'm on a contribution streak, so I do a lot right now) and it's gotten a lot easier.
alanh 13y ago
very humor enough wow still doge homepage again stop now done shibe
Cthulhu_ 13y ago
wow
benatkin 13y ago
This predates the doge_js twitter account, the doge npm package, and dogescript. It's also pretty neat with the terminal art! Nicely done.
larrybolt 13y ago
As stupid as it sounds, I actually have a use for this script: When I clearly want to mark that I start installing something or logging and need a "marker" that stands out. Very likely there is a better way to do this, but doge stands out.. and if someone would be looking over my shoulder at least it would make them laugh or ask about it.

22 points by thiderman 13y ago

SnakeSupply 13y ago

What did you use for the terminal (shibe) art?

thiderman 13y ago
https://github.com/rossy2401/img2xterm https://github.com/rossy2401/img2xterm It's pretty easy to use. The problem is usually to create good input for it. I spent roughly an hour in GIMP just tweaking the original doge.png and trying to get good dithering for the colors.
- antonios 13y ago
  What's that font in the terminal? Inconsolata?
  - thiderman 13y ago
    It is indeed!
- SnakeSupply 13y ago
  This is worth a few good giggles from my friends so good job! Just a few questions after peeking through the source: how long did it take you? Why is it so much more complicated than it seems on first impression? What was the hardest part?
  - thiderman 13y ago
    The initial code work was probably not even an hour from initial idea to actually having random colored strings and a test shibe. Then I spent some time tweaking the image to be better, as already mentioned. I never felt it looked complicated. The code is not even 300 lines, and at least I feel that the abstraction is all right. I wrote the code to be flexible, and because of that, adding piping to stdout was really simple. What parts of the code do you find complicated? The hardest part was getting the Python packaging right, haha. It was difficult to get the doge.txt file distributed in the package in a path that would work both when installed to site-packages and that would work whilst developing. I have since started doing more Python packaging for my other projects (I'm on a contribution streak, so I do a lot right now) and it's gotten a lot easier.

alanh 13y ago

very humor enough wow still doge homepage again stop now done shibe

Cthulhu_ 13y ago

wow

benatkin 13y ago

This predates the doge_js twitter account, the doge npm package, and dogescript. It's also pretty neat with the terminal art! Nicely done.

larrybolt 13y ago

As stupid as it sounds, I actually have a use for this script: When I clearly want to mark that I start installing something or logging and need a "marker" that stands out. Very likely there is a better way to do this, but doge stands out.. and if someone would be looking over my shoulder at least it would make them laugh or ask about it.