Hi HN readers. I created this command-line tool called svgasm to automate the generation of an SVG animation from a lot of SVG files. Originally I made this tool to create a dumb SVG animation from a bunch of matplotlib SVG exports. Then, I had the idea of using this method to sequence traced/vectorized versions of raster frames extracted from a GIF to create a time-discretized SVG animation, which is found to be generally aesthetically pleasing and smaller in file size. I created a bunch of GIF vs SVG side-by-side comparison examples with some interesting GIFs that I found online. The examples can be viewed on https://github.com/tomkwok/svgasm. Please tell me if the SVG animations work on your laptop/PC, especially the more complex SVGs like the infinity spiral example.
Looks great for me on my old MacBook Air, 10.14. And you picked a great set of images. The svgasm of the lions really struck me, it was almost art in its own right -- how you might see the lions if you weren't looking at the details, but just the feeling. Projecting my own emotions maybe, but really cool stuff and pretty inspiring that it took so little time to implement.
Thank you for your interest. What browser do you use? It seems to work better on Safari on my MBA.
Also, as stated on my GitHub page I used primitive [1] for the lions example. What svgasm adds to primitive and other tracer tools is the ability to process a GIF (or a sequence of images) and make an SVG animation out of the sequence.
Do you mean recompiling primitive or svgasm to JavaScript? No, it is not currently possible.
But yea it would be cool to have a web version of svgasm that uses some Javascript raster image tracers out there. I will be working on it and posting to HN later to anyone who's interested.
Elaborate? I have dozens of freenom domains (not just .tk, but also the other free TLDs like .ga et al.). I don't use them for critical (or commercial) services, but I've never had any issues - they are free after all.
DotTK and now Freenom have been great enablers for many smaller hobby sites. Get free webspace from bplaced, domain from freenom and CDN from CloudFlare and you have a pretty decent, ad-free infrastructure for a quick-and-dirty web project. A scratchpad solution basically.
Anyhow, that doesn't change the fact that the above DNS is still way too slow to be useful in the first place, at least from here.
> DotTK and now Freenom have been great enablers for many smaller hobby sites. Get free webspace from bplaced, domain from freenom and CDN from CloudFlare and you have a pretty decent, ad-free infrastructure for a quick-and-dirty web project. A scratchpad solution basically.
Agreed. But never use free .tk domains for anything serious. DotTK is notoriously for deleting domains registered for free from a user's account without any notification to the user as soon as the domain gets some amount of traffic according to many reports online.
Don't get me wrong, it's a nice island, but they just aren't answering my mail.
I suppose most of you have noticed, by now, the fifteen-second ads that present you with beautiful women and fish when you surf to tailsteak.tk. Those are not my ads. I do not obtain revenue from them. Tokelau's domain name referral service just started putting them up there without so much as a by-your-leave. I have contacted their tech support and enquired if, perhaps, they might consider removing them for customers willing to pay a certain amount. They have not responded.
Of course, I have had access to tailsteak.com for some time now. So henceforth, I will be directing my viewers there. It's the same site, the same host, and, in truth, the .tk address has been sending you there for months. But now it's official. Note the change in title graphic:
Indeed. And when you can get a domain you actually own for 99 cents (sometimes free, with offers) and a VPS for a few dollars per year, why bother with free domains or free hosting anyway.
I get the impression he's upset they took a freemium model and wants them to literally give him domains for free. Common sense would tell you that's unsustainable.
There's a free tier and a paid tier. The free tier has 2GB of space, limited number of FTP accounts and limited PHP functions (file sockets, cURL are disabled). You can basically run a Wordpress instance, but not a complex application. The bandwidth is also shared. These limits don't exist in the paid tiers.
But if you really just want to publish a smaller PHP app (they give you a MySQL DB, too), this is perfect. Combined with CloudFlare, the performance is more than good enough.
Edit: Another major factor is their scope. They are only somewhat internationalized, the english translation is more than lacking. Plus they have only 50k users (you have to login to the admin panel every 3 months or your account will be frozen, then slowly removed).
Edit 2: Their FAQ btw. explicitly states that you are allowed to create multiple accounts. I have had two accounts for a little over 3 years now, and they are working great. Their nameservers can be a tad slow if you add an external domain, but at least that's a free feature.
The mention of bplaced brought me waaay back. I used them for free hosting before I had a proper server of my own.
Unless they've changed, it's 000webhost but better: less known, faster, and no accounts getting cancelled without reason. No catch. Just like HN is free (and free of ads, despite how much traffic it must generate), this webhosting is free.
> Google's Web Crawlers are not "bypassing" paywall. It's the paywall that let's crawlers through. I.e. exactly the reverse of what the author implies with their headline.
Don't nitpick. It's just a shortened version of How To "Be" a Google’s Web Crawler to Bypass Paywalls. You get it. I get it. Everyone gets it.
