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Cool: Building a 60fps animated ASCII banner for GitHub Copilot CLI. 😎 Even cooler: Rendering high-res animation in a terminal without breaking performance. 😎😎 Here's how we did it. 🛠️ https://t.co/4qTvoL6VQj
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