Makes sense, you should keep some high resolution pictures on the front page as examples (ones you could zoom in on to see what they really look like). That way people can get an idea of what these look like without unduly stressing the servers.
I find this service a bit expensive for something that can be made in 10 minutes with illustrator - maybe if I get fantastic glossy paper, but it doesn't seem to mention much about the paper specs.
As somebody that rarely uses illustrator or other graphical software, spending $30 or $50 for something neat like turning my code into a poster that I can hang on the wall is easily worth it — despite how little time it might take someone else to fire up illustrator or bang out some script.
Yeah.. Site is jacked. Was going to buy a 36" x 24" but by time they fix it I'll have moved on and forgotten all about it. ADD and insufficient scale just saved me $50!
Server is being hugged to death. Can't seem to do anything at the moment. The idea is very cool though I would definitely use this, I'd perhaps even pay for it. Most Devs are fond of their code because they put work in to it. It's a cool idea for a bedroom or living room talking piece.
It looks nice, without a doubt. But I'd be more inclined to buy a poster that I can look at and remember that particular piece of code that was a pain to write/debug[#].
The poster can be a good thing to get after shipping a milestone!
[#] maybe displayed as a big "snake" with all the code put together
Good insight. Will be working on some of the features people have suggested. First milestone was the original use case I had. I shy away from changing the code too much.
We will be adding private repo support soon, it's just the mechanics are very clunky (ssh keys and such). You could however generate a temporary token (until you have purchased the poster, at which time you can delete it). You can enter the repo address on the home page as such: https://<auth-code>:x-oauth-basic@github.com/user/repo.git
Pretty cool! Was wondering how it would transform a whitespace sensitive language like Python. The service seems to be slow. But it looks like it would strip out all the indentation leaving it rather meaningless.
I recently shut down two small firms that I've run for years and years - the opportunity cost of not doing contract work or something else that paid decently was too much to keep at it.
...but I loved the code base, as clunky as it was. It had warts, scars, and stretch marks that documented its path through the years. I don't miss running the firms, but I do miss the code.
I'll be buying posters to hang on the wall and remind me of the good times.
Really like the idea and just had this thought: why not just present the code in color, normally indented (so not like minified) and in your favorite theme (such as Solarized Dark) in a long portrait format poster, then put some glossy finish on it and I'd buy instantly.
My initial reaction was "oh is that all". I mean don't get me wrong, the way the site works is nice, but I was really expecting it to move the code around such that the whitespace formed a picture, or have all the lines of code in random text sizes, or allow you to prioritise different sections so that some were highlighted or something like that.
As it stands it's not really something I want on my wall.
This reminds me of Litographs, a company that puts full text of books in poster form. While the concept works fine for prose it doesn't translate well for code.
Same. I was expecting something more like Perl's good old "Acme::EyeDrops", which obfuscates your code, then pours it into an arbitrary ASCII art shape. That's a lot more work than just removing whitespace and using characters as pixels, but this guy is charging money after all.
You don't know the half of it. Hopefully people are understanding and try again at a later time. Runs flawlessly when the user load is under a thousand :D.
Very cool! Does this use Lob[0] for posters (the size selections line up)? I've been wondering about their quality for a few side projects and am interested in any feedback about their quality.
Is there some type of estimate of how many character you need to fill up one of these posters? I wouldn't mind getting one of a particularly tricky module I wrote as a POC for my presentation at the SAM conference last year but it's probably only 300 LOC total.
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I find this service a bit expensive for something that can be made in 10 minutes with illustrator - maybe if I get fantastic glossy paper, but it doesn't seem to mention much about the paper specs.
Basically what it does is grab some files from the repository, removes newlines and prints it.
That didn't take me 10 minutes to come up with, let alone run.$40 for running a shell script and sending the file to the printer seems a bit excessive.
I need this printed on t-shirts!
The poster can be a good thing to get after shipping a milestone!
[#] maybe displayed as a big "snake" with all the code put together
iojs/io.js - https://commits.io/builds/1e68cd56c34
progit/progit - https://commits.io/builds/12e3174c300
torvalds/linux - https://commits.io/builds/c594eefd2a6
dotnet/coreclr - Never finished extracting. Waited for 5 minutes.
chromatic/modern_perl_book - https://commits.io/builds/028f52f571c
I recently shut down two small firms that I've run for years and years - the opportunity cost of not doing contract work or something else that paid decently was too much to keep at it.
...but I loved the code base, as clunky as it was. It had warts, scars, and stretch marks that documented its path through the years. I don't miss running the firms, but I do miss the code.
I'll be buying posters to hang on the wall and remind me of the good times.
As it stands it's not really something I want on my wall.
Not sure if this is public or not but for example Wordpress git repo with their logo
https://commits.io/builds/115b510aca7
http://i.imgur.com/OzzW4ZV.png [Just in case it's not accessible, screenshot fully zoomed out]
http://i.imgur.com/Zi37xZF.png [Zoomed in on the whiter parts of the logo]
[0] https://lob.com/services/sps/posters/pricing