cvat VS excalidraw

Another powerful resource is CVAT, the Computer Vision Annotation Tool which supports both image and video annotations with advanced capabilities such as interpolation of shapes between frames, making it highly suitable for computer vision.

CVAT has an open source repo under MIT license: https://github.com/opencv/cvat I've not worked with it directly but it might be a good place to start.

ref https://github.com/opencv/cvat/issues/6061

an open source annotation tool that integrates object detectors is CVAT https://github.com/opencv/cvat however, using your own detector might require some coding. there is an integration for yolov5, but without modification it only loads the pretrained models.

This integration is currently available in the open-source version of Computer Vision Annotation Tool (http://github.com/opencv/cvat) and coming soon to CVAT.ai cloud (http://cvat.ai/)! Please use it for your computer vision projects to segment images faster.

You can download the CVAT docker from a github (Link) and install it yourself, keeping all data local. And here are two options - locally on your personal computer (or company server) or in your own cloud (there are instructions on how to do this with AWS).

In this release, CVAT introduced new features based on our vision and suggestions in the CVAT community, plus addressed more than 20+ reported bugs.

You can find more information here Waiting for your feedback here: Discord, LinkedIn, Gitter, GitHub

ExcaliDraw - https://excalidraw.com/

ExcaliDraw

However, Notion and Obsidian can only help you write documentation. Well, how about some visuals? Let's talk about Excalidraw.

Fun fact: I used GA in Excalidraw, and it's still powering some of the interactions! https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/blob/master/package...

I was happy to find out recently that there is a way to make Mermaid diagrams WYSIWYG / drag and drop editable that the open source https://excalidraw.com has and did I mention it's open source!? With a LLM, you can go full loop back to Mermaid again after a few rounds of manual editing. "What a time to be alive!"

I'm working on a personal project and found myself looking for an alternative to Postman/Insomnia this morning. This made me realize i've been using the same tools for so long for work (mobile development, finance) that this project may be a good time to try out some new things.

Here are a few tools that i've been using lately that I really enjoy:

https://pocketbase.io/ - A dead-simple self-hosted firebase/supabase-like "backend in a box" using golang and sqlite. So far i've been really impressed. I've gone the route of extending the base offering with more go code and am really enjoying the experience.

https://excalidraw.com/ - An open source whiteboarding tool. Slick to use and after learning some keybinds I've gotten pretty fast at throwing together diagrams to explain things to people on my team. The killer piece though is that the filetype is just json, so I can source control my diagrams. Even better, their "export to png" function has a box to embed the json data _into_ the png, allowing me to slap the diagram in places that only accept images (think confluence) and still be able to change the diagram later if needed. 10/10.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ - Gitlab's CI/CD toolset is really impressive, and I've gotten really intimate with it's deeper features over the past year. I'd be curious though to hear from someone who's familiar with it vs it's competitors.