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Is there a canonical way to find the source to these types of github links? The broken link to durian.blender.org doesn't show anything, and the user page https://github.com/Pessimistress doesn't have any obvious ascii-art or video projects. Neither does the home page linked from github. And bundle.js is just obfuscated.

It looks like libcaca, but I would have to recompile mpv to see how similar it is.

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Yeah, the URL scheme is as follows:

- https://pessimistress.github.io/ascii/

- User: pessimistress

- Repository: ascii

But in this case, https://github.com/pessimistress/ascii seems to be private, so seems source is not published at all. Seems sourcemaps is defined in the JS file, but points to a non-existing file, so can't help you either. Left is to use something like http://jsnice.org/ to "de-uglify" it and try to guess what it is doing.

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