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Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
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Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#42Are there plans to enable remote control functionality, such as https://github.com/jpsim/DeckRocket ?
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#43"text-only" is a good description of bad slides to me. Why do people do that? The are plenty of Markdown slides tools so there seems to be a need.
This does allow you to embed images and diagrams. I think they rather mean the slide description language is text-only. But even embedded images implies uninspiring slides to me. For example they have a system that allows you to add source code to a slide, but then don't you want to be annotating that code? Adding arrows, lines, highlighting bits, breaking it apart, etc?
For a recent presentation I also tried reveal.js again and I really liked it overall (compared to LO Impress). I do science, so I'm not that into annotating source code, but this total lack of presentation "spice" also really bugged me and I basically ended up writing html with semitransparent overlays over key graphics (more of an explorative presentation)...
As to this: I just don't get what's so special about this. I especially don't get, what this could do, what plainly putting your presentation into git doesn't do already? Apparently behind the curtains (which probably does not concern people who do `curl | bash` stuff...) it's using pandoc to convert md to a reveal-js presentation and using a node-based live-server for display. Not even sure if speaker notes work (or if you have to use the reveal.js internal server for that)...
Also, this is a security nightmare, as a ton of boilerplate-dockercode/npm-packages/random-binaries is necessary for just about nothing, as in the end it's just downloading the pandoc-binary from github to a docker-container (well, building pandoc was to hard apparently). I'm scrambling my head, what this means for security in applications developed by people lead by the poster if he goes forward like this.
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a classic HN comment. Contempt which turns out to be grounded in "I have an esoteric priority which is different from that of the author." Anyway, it exports pdf.
> Contempt which turns out to be grounded in "I have an esoteric priority which is different from that of the author." Not contempt. Instead of a lukewarm indifference-couched-in-praise, I'm giving you real feedback. People should cherish that. (I know I do.) My priority isn't esoteric, it's the priority of 99.9% of those doing slide presentations. For the vast majority of people the problem they need solved is "will…
> it's the priority of 99.9% of those doing slide presentations
No, it's definitely not. Most people I see (I see a lot) are presenting from their own laptops.
For the record I'm not involved in this project.
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#45Are there plans to enable remote control functionality, such as https://github.com/jpsim/DeckRocket ?
I use a simple presenter with simple forward/backward keys...
DeckRocket looks cool, but unfortunately I cannot build it on my machine (to convert the app from swift 2.4 to swift 3 or even higher, xcode8 or so is needed... and that is not a priority at the moment)
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#46This is really nice, especially all the integrations. I've been using slides.com for a while, and I may switch to this. But, one feature that would be amazing would be the ability to upload to an S3 bucket. Bonus points for creating a public bucket configured correctly to view the slides. It's annoying to have to carry every possible type of dongle and fight with A/V issues at random places when you need to show a de…
A sync to S3 is a nice idea. And it is completely independent from the generator you use... so I would see that functionality as a utility command, called when everything else is finished.
btw: with markdeck, I tried the completely different approach: do not dependent on an uplink, neither when authoring, nor when presenting...
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#47Are there plans for Linux / Windows support? I don't own any Apple hardware, so I can't even try this, but if it works well I'd be happy to pay for it.
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#48Are there plans for Linux / Windows support? I don't own any Apple hardware, so I can't even try this, but if it works well I'd be happy to pay for it.
The showcase slides claim support: https://arnehilmann.github.io/markdeck/showcase/#/features
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#49Are there plans for Linux / Windows support? I don't own any Apple hardware, so I can't even try this, but if it works well I'd be happy to pay for it.
It gets developed on MacOS, and is tested also on Linux.
It should run with docker on Windows, too;
although that wasn't tested yet...
Re: Show HN: Markdeck – author cool slides, text-only, offline-ready, collaborative
#50This is really nice, especially all the integrations. I've been using slides.com for a while, and I may switch to this. But, one feature that would be amazing would be the ability to upload to an S3 bucket. Bonus points for creating a public bucket configured correctly to view the slides. It's annoying to have to carry every possible type of dongle and fight with A/V issues at random places when you need to show a de…
I use https://surge.sh/ to host my reveal.js presentations for free, images and all.
Examples: https://marketing-slides.surge.sh