ASCII art in motd

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 06:17:36 +0000

I wanted a nicer login experience (see image above) when logging into my server.

For this I used the following sites, tools and steps.

Steps:

Search a nice SVG image at “svgrepo” and save it;
Upload it to “asciiart”, and generate an ASCII art you are happy with;
Download the BBCode variant of the image and (if you want colors) run the program to translate [color=#...] to terminal control characters.
```
go run replace.go <image> && cat out
```

The used program is hacky, but does the job. Also used “inkscape” to fiddle with another logo, and made that output something decent as well.

Motd on Miek Gieben