TIL you can make "GIFs" with SVGs for GitHub README.md files

Summary

The moving image below is only 49Kb and has an incredibly high resolution. It's similar to a GIF but instead of showing moving images, it shows moving SVGs! The best part: Github supports these in their README.md files! Getting these to work involves asciinema and svg-term-cli. After uploading the asciinema you can use the tool to download a file that you can immediately click and drag into a README. It's something that I'm using extensively on bespoken. How it works? I was surpised to learn that moving SVGs were even a thing. But then I was reminded that animations are built into the svg spec. <animate> - animates individual attributes over time - animates individual attributes over time <animateTransform> - animates transformations like rotation, scaling, translation - animates transformations like rotation, scaling, translation <animateMotion> - moves elements along a path