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drawio-desktop
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Monodraw
For anyone who is willing to use a webapp, I like drawio[0]. You can download locally[1] and self host (I just use the python webserver).
While finding the Github, I see they now actually package an Electron application, so that is probably worth exploring[2].
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What is your favorite tool for designing complex architecture, and why is it MS Paint?
You can also get it for desktop. It's the same web app but I like to have it installed.
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Open-source drawing tool – Excalidraw
I like excalidraw for live discussions but if I want to make more detailed or better looking diagrams, I really enjoy these two tools:
- For drag-and-drop/WYSIWYG, I really like DrawIO. They have a web version https://app.diagrams.net/ but I strongly recommend the desktop version https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases/
- For text-as-diagram, I think Mermaid wins this by default since GitHub added markdown support for these: https://mermaid.live/ (This was github's announcement https://github.blog/2022-02-14-include-diagrams-markdown-fil... )
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HarvardX CS50's Introduction to Programming with Python
Protip: get draw.io if you want to edit that file. Or just use the online https://www.drawio.com/ (previously diagram.net?)
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The struggle is real. What free software exists for control circuit diagrams?
Perhaps diagrams.net (click 'more shapes' to add the electrical symbols). There is also yEd. It has logic gates, but I don't know if it has electrical components. Of course KiCAD is specifically designed for circuits, but that might not fit your application.
- Caffè Italia * 26/04/23
- LlamaAcademy: Teach GPTs to understand API documentation with LoRA
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(Space Exploration) Am I the only one who finds it impossible to plan out a build without a clear visualization of the production chain like this? And why is it impossible to find charts or tools like this?
For the diagram in my OP, I used this tool https://www.diagrams.net/ which integrates with google drive. Normally I use the google drawings app for quick charts and such but the diagrams app is much better when you need to connect lots of arrows and re-arrange things while keeping the arrows attached.
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Tips for creating an RPG game for a beginner.
https://www.diagrams.net
excalidraw
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Tools that Make Me Productive as a Software Engineer
However, Notion and Obsidian can only help you write documentation. Well, how about some visuals? Let's talk about Excalidraw.
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Rapier is a set of 2D and 3D physics engines written in Rust
Fun fact: I used GA in Excalidraw, and it's still powering some of the interactions! https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw/blob/master/package...
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Ask HN: Anyone use a code to mindmap/flowchart tool?
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!"
- Show HN: Batch Image Manipulation Toolkit in Browser
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Ask HN: What development tools are you using for your current project?
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.
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Penrose – Penrose
Sketch easy and go back to work...
- Rough.js: Create graphics with a hand-drawn, sketchy, appearance
- Database Fundamentals
- Show HN: Airdraw
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Need help identifying a good open source data annotation tool
Also, a lot of image annotation is quite similar to vector editing and white boarding, so depending on what you need you might be able to adapt something like https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw (also MIT) for your purposes.
What are some alternatives?
tldraw - Infinite canvas.
draw.io - draw.io is a JavaScript, client-side editor for general diagramming.
mermaid - Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
obsidian-excalidraw-plugin - A plugin to edit and view Excalidraw drawings in Obsidian
docker-draw.io - Dockerized draw.io based on tomcat:9-jre11 & tomcat:9-jre8-alpine official image.
venn.nvim - Draw ASCII diagrams in Neovim
mirotalk - 🚀 WebRTC - P2P - Simple, Secure, Fast Real-Time Video Conferences Up to 4k and 60fps, compatible with all browsers and platforms.
notion-auto-pull - Bash script to automatically download a notion workspace
perfect-freehand - Draw perfect pressure-sensitive freehand lines.
penpot - Penpot - The Open-Source design & prototyping platform