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I've been working on ninesui, inspired by k9s see thoughts-633. I want a good flow for making video for the readme and I am using charm.sh's vhs for this....

Date: May 16, 2025

I’ve been working on ninesui <https://github.com/WaylonWalker/ninesui/blob/main/README.md>, inspired by k9s see thoughts-633 <https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/post/633>. I want a good flow for making video for the readme and I am using charm.sh <https://charm.sh/apps/>’s vhs <https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs> for this. Its running in an archBTW distrobox and looks gawdaweful.

Video: <https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/e86047ed-6881-43f7-8e3a-30411d51afaf.mp4>

The over saturated colors give it a really retro look, seems fine, but not my cup of tea. I tried to change the textual theme to tokyo-night and it might have made it a bit better, but still over-saturated.

After
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What I found is that vhs has themes, setting it to dracula made everything much better.

```
# sort.tape
Output assets/sort.mp4
Output assets/sort.gif

Require echo

Set Shell "bash"
Set FontSize 32
Set Width 1920
Set Height 1080
+ Set Theme 'Dracula'
```

Video: <https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/ada8f04d-88ac-41c3-9983-d9e849cc13ad.mp4>

NinesUI
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I’m using these in my ninesui <https://github.com/WaylonWalker/ninesui> project, right now they are in the readme, but maybe some docs will grow eventually. Right now its hardcore explore phase.