ascii.io

No nonsense asciicasting for serious hackers

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What?

ascii.io lets you record your terminal sessions and share them with other geeks simply by running asciiio command in your term.

It is fully open-source platform with aim of being a "go to" place for terminal users wanting to share their hackery. Web based player is an implementation of VT100/VT102 ANSI terminal, supporting most ANSI sequences, all text attributes and 256 colors.

See

"A picture is worth a thousand words" Fred R. Barnard once said.

Just watch one of the featured asciicasts and see how cool ascii.io is.

<%= @asciicast.smart_title %>

<%= render :partial => 'asciicasts/asciicast', :object => @asciicast, :locals => { :skip_description => true, :auto_play => false } %>

Use it

<%= markdown do %> To install or upgrade **ascii.io** recorder, open a terminal and run following command: $ curl -sL get.ascii.io | bash (when using zsh you may need to run `rehash` after above command) That's it! Now you can start recording your terminal sessions with: $ asciiio If you want your recordings to be assigned to your ascii.io profile (btw, see mine: [~sickill](/~sickill)) run this and follow instructions: $ asciiio auth See available commands and options with: $ asciiio -h <% end %> <%# <%= link_to 'See help', manual_path, :class => "btn btn-large" %1> %>

Explore

<%= link_to 'Browse', browse_path %> through all recorded asciicasts.