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Asciinema with Marcin Kulik

January 31, 2024 51:00 74.8 MB Downloads: 0

Allen Wyma talks with Marcin Kulik about his work on asciinema, a service that allows people to record their terminal windows to share with others, that has the custom asciinema player written in Rust.

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Timestamps

  • [@00:00] - Introduction
  • [@01:56] - Overview of Asciinema: A suite of tools for recording, replaying, and sharing terminal sessions
  • [@09:11] - More about Marcin Kulik, the creator of Asciinema, and his background
  • [@10:08] - Inspiration behind the creation of Asciinema
  • [@18:52] - Marcin’s journey into Rust
  • [@23:15] - Balancing paid development and consulting services for Asciinema
  • [@24:36] - Progress on the Rust rewrite
  • [@28:37] - AGG (Asciinema GIF generator)
  • [@34:44] - Maintaining multiple languages and the role of Rust
  • [@40:17] - Future plans for Asciinema and potential features
  • [@47:23] - Closing discussion

Credits

Intro Theme: Aerocity

Audio Editing: Plangora

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset

Show Notes: Plangora

Hosts: Allen Wyma