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Hi HN! Cool to see this posted here.

I made this in college because I would always make slides last minute before class presentations or talks at my school's CS club, and fiddling with google slides/powerpoint seemed like overkill. I hope you find it useful as I have over the years.

I've attempted to rewrite it 5 or 6 times based on whatever cool technology I was distracted with, but never merged anything upstream (Spectacle https://github.com/FormidableLabs/spectacle is already a wonderful React solution).

A couple other folks maintain cleaver now (they're great), but lemme know if you have any questions!



I have to ask what this offers over a LaTeX/Beamer setup. I'm fairly happy using LaTeX for anything I'm sharing, but I'm curious about alternatives.


Sure, when throwing some slides together last minute the first thing that comes to mind is "LaTeX".


Maybe you might want to spend some time with LaTeX then. Honestly, it's one of the most useful things I learned in school.


I second that, it's extremely powerful, but not the tool I would reach for a quick last-minute presentation, as well.


I'm with ralmeida here; do you actually make super fast slides with LaTeX? That has definitely not been my experience.


Yeah after 1-2 presentations I built a template and just drop stuff into each slide I have defined. Then if I need more slides I copy the framework bit for a single slide. Super easy.




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