What I found most interesting about this is how it's just 43 lines of code, demonstrating how well modularity is working out for Node. It basically joins two otherwise unrelated Node packages (picture-tube and webshot) together, and that's pretty cool.
For some reason, such trivial connecting of modules and then releasing that as a new module doesn't seem as common in the Ruby world (to me) despite RubyGems being a reasonable system in its own right.
I hadn’t known about AAlib, that’s quite cool. Unfortunately it seems only to do greyscale output, whereas the selling point of this is that it’s in colour.
I made a pull request to picture-tube to support this, in a limited way[1]. If that gets merged, hit-that can be updated to take advantage of it.
For some reason, such trivial connecting of modules and then releasing that as a new module doesn't seem as common in the Ruby world (to me) despite RubyGems being a reasonable system in its own right.