https://koaning.io/posts/svg-gifs/ koaning.io Blog of a data person All Posts Keyboard Reviews Apps About RSS Home All Posts Keyboard Reviews Apps About RSS SVGs that feel like GIFs 2025-07-07 The moving image below is only 49Kb and has an incredibly high resolution. moving svg 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. * - animates individual attributes over time * - animates transformations like rotation, scaling, translation * - moves elements along a path This is what the svg-term-cli leverages under the hood. Related Posts the LLM pizza pattern 2025-07-08 just is just amazing 2025-07-04 Giving daytona.io a spin 2025-07-03 uvx pattern for two tiers of open work 2025-06-30 (c) 2025 Vincent D. Warmerdam. All rights reserved. [ ] ESC No posts found. Try a different search term. || to navigate | to select ESC to close