Asciinema with Marcin Kulik

Allen Wyma talks with Marcin Kulik (ku1ik.com) about his work on asciinema.org, 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: twitter.com/AerocityMusic

Audio Editing: Plangora (twitter.com/plangora)

Hosting Infrastructure: Jon Gjengset (twitter.com/jonhoo)

Show Notes: Plangora (twitter.com/plangora)

Hosts: Allen Wyma (twitter.com/allenwyma)