Neat stuff, thanks!

On Nov 26, 2013, at 7:52 AM, David Mertens <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey everyone -
> 
> In some of my Perl blog reading, I came across an interesting technology 
> called showterm. This is a wonderful hack on top of the "script" UNIX/Linux 
> executable, which I had never heard of before. Once installed, the basic 
> usage steps are:
> 
> 1) type "showterm"
> 2) do whatever you want on the terminal; for example, type "pdl" and start an 
> interactive shell
> 3) type "exit" from the terminal when you're done
> 
> showterm will then upload the results of "script" to a cloud server that can 
> render everything in a browser using javascript.
> 
> The point of this is not that it does 1 million cool things. It does one 
> thing extraordinarily well. Here's a simple example showing the most basic of 
> PDL shell demos: http://showterm.io/d8db6184b52863423e37d
> 
> Now, if somebody has a question, it is probably best to copy-and-paste a 
> shell session into the email. However, now we can both copy and paste the 
> shell session *and* give a link to replay it!
> 
> David
> 
> -- 
>  "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
>   Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
>   by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian Kernighan
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