Technical presentations often involve jumping between slides, terminal, and IDE. Picture explaining a Kubernetes deployment — you start with architecture slides, switch to terminal to show kubectl…

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Terminal-based presentations streamline technical demonstrations by eliminating the need to switch between multiple tools like slides, terminal, and IDEs. They allow for live code demos, command outputs, and ASCII diagrams to be shown directly in the terminal. To set up, you need tools like Slides, Just, GitHub CLI, and a terminal slides template. Additional tools like PlantUML can enhance the presentation with ASCII diagrams. Custom themes can be applied for visual consistency.

Terminal-Based Presentations

“just because you can doesnt mean you should”

Love the style of this! Reminds me of cowsay.
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A long time ago, as a thesis project in school, I created an editor for interactive HTML/CSS/JS presentations - something like PowerPoint, but designed for creating presentations with <a href="https://impress.js.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">impress.js</a>.
Now, 10 years later, I come across a tool for creating presentations in the terminal. Wow! The gap between these two approaches is so vast - it perfectly illustrates how diverse the world is and how different personality types have such varied preferences for what they consider “cool stuff”.

That would have helped me when I showcased uv some months ago to my co-workers! It’s that kind of tool super useful when you show things used in a terminal