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Personal blag of Hans Petter Jansson: Fun with computers edition

    Tag: ansi art

    Chafa 1.14: All-singing, all-dancing

    On January 18, 2024 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing

    Dear friends, comrades, partners in crime and moderate profit! I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Chafa 1.14.0.

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    A quick textmode-themed update

    On June 9, 2022 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing

    Summer is coming and I've got a couple of posts cooking that may turn out mildly interesting, but — time constraints being what they are — in the meantime there's this.

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    Chafa 1.8: Terminal graphics with a side of everything

    On September 16, 2021 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, Technical

    The Chafa changelog was growing long again, owing to about half a year's worth of slow accretion. Hence, a release. Here's some stuff that happened.

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    Chafa 1.6.0: Wider

    On January 18, 2021 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, Technical

    Here's another one from the terminal graphics extravaganza dept: Chafa 1.6.0 brings fullwidth character support, so in addition to the usual block elements and ASCII art, you now get some mean CJK art too. Or grab as many fonts as you can and combine all of the Unicode into one big glorious mess.

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    Chafa 1.4.0: Now with sixels

    On April 1, 2020 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, Technical

    April 1st seems like as good a time as any for a new Chafa release — though note that Chafa is no joke. At least not anymore, what with the extremely enterprise-ready sixel pipeline and all. As usual, you can …

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    Chafa 1.2.0: Faster than ever, now with 75% more grit

    On August 5, 2019 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, Technical

    For all you terminal graphics connoisseurs out there (there must be dozens of us!), I released Chafa 1.2.0 this weekend. Thanks to embedded copies of some parallel image scaling code and the quite excellent libnsgif, it's faster and better in …

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    The worst ANSI art renderer, except for all the others

    On January 7, 2019 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, Technical

    Chafa (github) started out as a small piece of supporting code for an obscure personal project I may announce at some indefinite point in the future. Then I decided to release it as a tongue-in-cheek thing for the VT100 anniversary …

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    Introducing Chafa

    On April 24, 2018 By Hans Petter Jansson In Computing, Technical

    Here's something I didn't know: The DEC VT100 turns 40 in August. This factlet comes courtesy of Wikipedia, as I'm not quite old and wise enough to have made its acquaintance outside of a museum. None the less, the VT100 …

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