Face to gif is a simple webapp that lets you record yourself and gives you an infinitely looping animated gif. In this post I will walk you through how it came to be and what I’ve learned from building the small app. It started with Chris Heilmann’s post about people losing expressiveness to internet memes. At least, that was what I wanted to understand out of it. I thought it really came down to
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