Author's github history looks like an absolute coding machine
Reminds me of smithers.el
Reminds me that I made a rainbow unicorn that jumped across your screen as a cmdline utility to be run after all tests passed. Coworkers got a good laugh if nothing else. Fun times.
This is awesome! Are there any other things like this?
Fun little parrot! And beats installing with snap (I don't like snap).
Out of curiosity, my rudimentary measurement puts bandwidth usage at about 17 KiB/s. Some might say that's negligible nowadays, which is not that unreasonable (1 hour ~ 61 MiB). Still, my efficiency brain is tingling. I guess simply displaying chars is lower risk than running code on your computer.
Soooo, not knowing much about either curl nor front-end.. how DOES THIS WORK?
Is this just some weird default logging in curl?
You have to use curl:
> curl parrot.live
Otherwise parrot.live redirects (which HN followed otherwise link here would be parrot.live).
Remonds of when you could watch ASCII Star Wars with telnet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqJrI12ruxg
Loved to death I assume. :(
$ curl parrot.live
<html>
<head><title>504 Gateway Time-out</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>504 Gateway Time-out</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)</center>
</body>
</html>That crashed my ssh session into my rapberry pi
In powershell??
this is what Hacker News was made for
site crashed! I cant get a response
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Wow! Surprised to see this on the front page.
I built this about 8 years ago on a whim, and it blew up. Only recently did I learn there was a memory leak, after getting a big traffic spike that caused an OOM.
Over the years it’s burned through several TB of bandwidth per month.
I built ascii.live to support different animations for fun, although I don’t have as much time to review PRs as I’d like.