Empress

Fucking simple presentations.

Why?

• You want to write your slides in Markdown, because like plain text, Markdown is classy, portable, and patriotic as fuck
• You don't want to mess around with Keynote, Powerpoint, Prezi or Reveal.js like a peasant

How?

• Write slides in Markdown files.
• Put the slides in a directory and name them like this to indicate presentation order:

1-getting_started.md
2-practical.md
3-exploratory.md
4-big_projects.md
5-class.md
6-value_object.md
7-object.md
8-immutability.md
9-pattern_matching.md

• Use the .jar to start the presentation server:

$ java -DslidesPath=$PATH_TO_SLIDES \
       -DpresentationName=$TITLE_OF_PRESENTATION \
       -jar $PATH_TO_JAR

• Give the people what they want:

$ open http://localhost:9000

• If you haven't built the .jar, build it like this:

$ git clone $THE_REPO
$ cd empress
$ sbt assembly

The .jar file will be in target/scala-2.12

• If you don't have a JRE, I feel sorry for you.

Native binary

Another option, if you have GraalVM, is you can build a native image. Do this:

native-image -H:+ReportUnsupportedElementsAtRuntime \
-jar target/scala-2.12/empress-assembly-0.2.0.jar

Then:

./empress-assembly-0.2.0 /Users/xcxk066/code/testdeck "a great talk"