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Re:Show HN: Debugger that generates video visualizations for... by jaw on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @03:13AM (#22178463)
Awesome! (For some reason, the demo gif doesn't display for me in Safari, but I can see it in Chrome/Firefox.)

I feel like this sort of thing could really be an essential tool in teaching programming. I've been working on a somewhat similar project for visualizing execution of javascript code (but it works by instrumenting the code, rather than interfacing with a debugger, so that it can all be done in the browser), which I'm hoping to release soon.

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Re:Show HN: Debugger that generates video visualizations for... by malux85 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:02AM (#22178694)
Hey I’m really interested in seeing this (and contributing if it’s open source), please do a show HN when you release!
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Re:Show HN: Debugger that generates video visualizations for... by jaw on Sunday February 09, 2020 @12:07PM (#22283080)
Released! https://github.com/brokensandals/blunt-instrument#blunt-inst...
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Re:Show HN: Debugger that generates video visualizations for... by kdrag0n on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @10:31AM (#22181565)
Could you check if the issue with the demo has been fixed? GitHub's image host doesn't support WebP (which I use for better quality at a smaller size), so I've moved it to my own server where the MIME type should be correct.

Your interactive project sounds interesting, let us know when it's out :)

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Re:Show HN: Debugger that generates video visualizations for... by jaw on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @12:26PM (#22183197)
It still won't display in Safari. I wasn't familiar with WebP but it sounds like maybe Safari just doesn't support that format at all: https://caniuse.com/#search=WebP
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Re:Show HN: Debugger that generates video visualizations for... by kdrag0n on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @03:14PM (#22185292)
Ah, that's unfortunate. I've replaced it with an actual GIF, so it should work now — thanks for the heads up.
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Re:Show HN: Debugger that generates video visualizations for... by jaw on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @04:02PM (#22185776)
Yep, works now :)
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Re:Show HN: Debugger that generates video visualizations for... by whywhywhywhy on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @05:49AM (#22179210)
> the demo gif doesn't display for me in Safari

It's actually an incorrectly named .webp file that's why.

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