[HN Gopher] Pysentation: CLI for displaying Python presentations
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       Pysentation: CLI for displaying Python presentations
        
       Author : mimseyedi
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2023-09-01 17:02 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | clircle wrote:
       | Maybe I'm not the target audience, but what does this solve that
       | powerpoint doesn't?
        
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         | BiteCode_dev wrote:
         | Git commit, git diff.
        
           | clircle wrote:
           | Which definitely does not help me makes slides...
        
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           | kingforaday wrote:
           | Not sure this is a great answer anymore. O365/Powerpoint
           | supports multi-user collaboration, change detection and
           | automatic version control; however, no judgement on the
           | overall efficacy.
        
         | faizshah wrote:
         | What does Pepsi solve that Coke doesn't?
        
       | kstrauser wrote:
       | For a different approach, but still in the handwavey space of
       | presentation apps that are actually pleasant to use, I'm a big
       | fan of iA Presenter (https://ia.net/presenter). Short version:
       | write Markdown, then Presenter makes it look nice. Export your
       | deck to a PDF when you're done so you can pass it around. Write
       | CSS for styling, or use their online theme builder to do it for
       | you.
       | 
       | And while it's commercial software, it has a pay-once option that
       | I instantly purchased.
        
       | faizshah wrote:
       | I love this, seems really great for giving presentations on
       | prototypes.
       | 
       | Is there any reason why this only works for Python?
       | 
       | Seems like you could just give it a variable to specify the
       | comment delimiter and a variable for the syntax highlighting and
       | then use it for any language right?
        
       | doctorpangloss wrote:
       | This is a great project.
       | 
       | Is it bad that I look at every library now, no matter how
       | awesome, and think "Well this didn't exist on or before September
       | 2021, so do I really wanna learn this?"
       | 
       | I mean surely an interface of the form blah blah blah, "Now, take
       | the content and turn it into slides using a document creation
       | API" is the best right?
       | 
       | Should every library include a documentation endpoint for Scraper
       | Plugin of the right context length? Is prompt injection an
       | attack, or an opportunity? This is new ground for adoption.
        
       | bjourne wrote:
       | Cool stuff. This would solve many of my use cases of beamer if it
       | had support for animations. E.g to click through each step of an
       | algorithm for sorting a list in place.
        
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