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