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sandos wrote: post #22

Soooo, not knowing much about either curl nor front-end.. how DOES THIS WORK? Is this just some weird default logging in curl?

Curl just downloads the http response and prints it to the terminal. The sever streams the response and yields a frame of the video every 70ms or so. It sends control characters in the response to clear the terminal and change the color.

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Post by foolswisdom » Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 11:41 AM UTC

sandos wrote: post #22

Soooo, not knowing much about either curl nor front-end.. how DOES THIS WORK? Is this just some weird default logging in curl?

I figure that the response uses ascii escape sequences to control the terminal (and that curl is just piping the response to the terminal).

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Post by petepete » Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 11:58 AM UTC

hsx wrote: post #14

Wow! Surprised to see this on the front page. I built this about 8 years ago on a whim, and it blew up. Only recently did I learn there was a memory leak, after getting a big traffic spike that caused an OOM. Over the years it’s burned through several TB of bandwidth per month. I built ascii.live to support different animations for fun, although I don’t have as much time to review PRs as I’d like.

There's an actual parrot emoji now for your GitHub description

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Post by gwhr » Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 12:04 PM UTC

shreddit wrote: post #21

oytis wrote: post #18

Author's github history looks like an absolute coding machine

I wonder what happened on May 11th

And what happened in Nov 2023

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Post by LorenDB » Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 12:15 PM UTC

hsx wrote: post #14

Wow! Surprised to see this on the front page. I built this about 8 years ago on a whim, and it blew up. Only recently did I learn there was a memory leak, after getting a big traffic spike that caused an OOM. Over the years it’s burned through several TB of bandwidth per month. I built ascii.live to support different animations for fun, although I don’t have as much time to review PRs as I’d like.

> Over the years it’s burned through several TB of bandwidth per month.

I hope you're hosting it on Hetzner (or somewhere else with a generous traffic plan). They give you 20TB traffic per month.

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Post by 90s_dev » Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 12:37 PM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #7

90s_dev wrote: post #4

Reminds me that I made a rainbow unicorn that jumped across your screen as a cmdline utility to be run after all tests passed. Coworkers got a good laugh if nothing else. Fun times.

Now you can just ask an AI to write the code to show a jumping unicorn. All the magic is gone from programming!

Others can ask AI to write it, but I don't have to use it. I can still write my own and use what others have written by hand.

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Post by curtisszmania » Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 12:55 PM UTC

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Post by brookst » Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 1:23 PM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #7

90s_dev wrote: post #4

Reminds me that I made a rainbow unicorn that jumped across your screen as a cmdline utility to be run after all tests passed. Coworkers got a good laugh if nothing else. Fun times.

Now you can just ask an AI to write the code to show a jumping unicorn. All the magic is gone from programming!

“You can use AI to write code to show a jumping unicorn” feels pretty magic to me.