Did you know that the first prototype of what later became the asciinema player replayed “typescript” files produced by script command? In fact, the whole asciinema project originated with the player, not with the command line recorder. Tha…
So far you could log in to asciinema using your Github or Twitter account via OAuth. The idea behind this was twofold: Passwords are insecure, inconvenient and annoying. Inconvenience of passwords was nicely summed up by Xavier in his tweet…
This is part 2 in the “what’s new in asciinema” series. In the first part I looked at the player, in this one I’ll focus on the recorder (aka CLI). Fun fact: people use asciinema to record the terminal on Android. I would never have thought…
I’m happy to announce the release of asciinema CLI 3.0! This is a complete rewrite of asciinema in Rust, upgrading the recording file format, introducing terminal live streaming, and bringing numerous improvements across the board. In this
There’s been a steady stream of asciinema releases over the last 12 months and I thought it would be nice to bring notable additions and improvements to the light. This is the first post in the “what’s new in asciinema” series, in which I’l…
This is part 3 in the “what’s new in asciinema” series. In the first part we looked at the player, in the second part we covered the recorder, and in this one we’ll focus on the server. Let’s begin with OPS-related stuff. asciinema.org uses…
Support for embedding asciicasts just got way more awesome. See embedding docs for details, read on for examples. In addition to the existing support for embedding full player widget on your page, you can now use image link to display a scr…
We have just released asciinema web player v2.3.0. Since v2.0.0 there were two smaller releases bringing lots of improvements (see the CHANGELOG), but this one definitely deserves a post of its own. This new version makes self-hosting of th…
I’m very happy to announce the release of asciinema 1.3, which is kind of a special release. It brings several bug fixes and improvements for end users, and at the same time it makes life of asciinema developers (mostly me) and package main…
I’m very happy to announce the release of asciinema 1.0, which brings many long-awaited features and settles the ground for even more awesome features and improvements coming in the future. See CHANGELOG for a detailed list of changes, cont…
The core idea behind asciinema.org is to allow anyone to share the recording of their terminal session by simply sharing a link to your asciicast page. Since the inception of asciinema all recordings has been public. We wanted to encourage
It’s been a while since asciinema-player 2.6 was released and a lot has changed since. Version 3.0 is around the corner with so much good stuff, that even though it’s not released yet, I couldn’t wait any longer to share. Long story short: