Looking at the homepage of what's now [vets.gov](https://www.vets.gov) over time, during development from March to its November initial public release.

vets-gov.md

Looking at the homepage of what's now vets.gov over time, during development from March to its November initial public release.

Tweets

• https://twitter.com/konklone/status/664877889930854401
• https://twitter.com/konklone/status/664878352520597504
• https://twitter.com/konklone/status/664878621551652864
• https://twitter.com/konklone/status/664882036054892544

Commits

• March: 571c26680de214be1fea80b493c53d6b1a08ef8d
• April: c1cdc2717258ea991ea39f273a473eef3c2a2754
• May: 56eac62222b02651d40f2666632366d0b7286b60
• June: 769f196e05f668d2fc19ee4c6b41f4515dd3623b
• July: 3515382017de3f2006850bc73acf82c26167aee0
• August: 3bd2f12878612268ab0a53632abd82a6fa06d7c6
• September: 4ce5952c82510aa538fe23e20463bb96765f3cf3
• October: 282a453f918240a36a9cbb8a00e25246c8c78591
• November: vets.gov

Process

• Checkout repo at each commit in detached mode:

git checkout [commit]

• Usually have to edit _config.yml to change the asset URL to point to http://localhost:4000 instead of the github.io subdomain VA used in development.

• Then run the server at http://localhost:4000:

bundle exec jekyll serve

• Scroll down to make the text all fade in, and then take screenshots with the Full Page Screen Capture Chrome extension.

• Convert PNGs to (large) animated GIF:

convert -delay 100 -loop 0 *.png animation.gif

• "Coalesce" it because some random google search results told me to:

convert animation.gif -coalesce animation-coalesced.gif

• Figure out that the size is 2125x1709, do some quick math to scale that down by 20% (1700x1207).

• Then resize the image:

convert -size 2125x1509 animation-coalesced.gif -resize 1700x1207 animation-smaller.gif

• animation-smaller.gif is below Twitter's 3MB size limit. (For other processes, tweak size and re-run commands as needed to get below 3MB.)