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gifcast
JavaScript2022–2022
dstein64 / gifcast

gifcast

Converts an asciinema cast to an animated GIF.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
243GitHub stars
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What it is

Converts an asciinema cast to an animated GIF.

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-10-27 15:54:13 UTC to 2022-10-27 18:33:06 UTC.

012022-10-27 15:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-27 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 27, 15:002022-10-27 16:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-27 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 27, 16:002022-10-27 17:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-27 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-27 18:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-27 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 27, 18:00

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Oct 27, 15:002022-10-27 15:00:00 UTC2022-10-27 16:00:00 UTC101
Oct 27, 16:002022-10-27 16:00:00 UTC2022-10-27 17:00:00 UTC000
Oct 27, 17:002022-10-27 17:00:00 UTC2022-10-27 18:00:00 UTC000
Oct 27, 18:002022-10-27 18:00:00 UTC2022-10-27 19:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I wrote a blog post[1] breaking down tools to record terminal sessions just a couple weeks ago. I wasn't aware of this particular one but it looks like it's going to have issues with recording anything that requires user input. My post describes how to make high quality recordings of terminal sessions that can be replayed in the terminal, or shared on the web. I'm defining high quality as recordings with zero typos, and relatively controlled timing between commands. I'm going to assume this works well because all the stuff from Charm seems to, BUT its limitations are ... problematic. I think the techniques i list in the post combined with agg[2] or gifcast[3] to covert it to a gif would be a better solution for non-trivial cases. I'll add notes about agg and gifcast to the post this evening hopefully. [1]: https://weblog.masukomi.org/202
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