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foam3
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How could the early Unix OS comprise so few lines of code?
Thank you for sharing that video! Your foam project looks fascinating too: https://github.com/kgrgreer/foam3
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A repository of “BASIC Computer Games” code in modern languages
I wrote a BASIC to JS compiler/transpiler that includes all of the programs from "BASIC Computer Games" as examples.
You can try it out in your browser at: https://codepen.io/kgr/full/yLQyLjR
Just select the game you want to to run from the top-left list box, then press the "Compile" button and you'll see the translated JS source in the right text-area. Then press the "Run" button to run it.
The source code for the compiler is available at: https://github.com/kgrgreer/foam3/tree/429f2fd2b4cef0e37996a...
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Architecture diagrams should be code
Sort of related but an interesting idea is take it one step further with the Feature Oriented Active Modeler (FOAM) [1,2] paradigm and use code to model your whole system, which generates diagrams model, and runnable code in whatever language needed. The project is still young and it may not be practical today with the available tooling but it seems like a cool idea and project. It is influenced by the unix principle of “coding the perimeter not the area” which is essentially factoring your dev tasks into building NM capabilities, but instead of building NM things individually build N+M tools that can be composed into N*M capabilities [2].
So with FOAM the idea is if we want to maintain a model of our software, and build it as well, what if we can use one composable tool to generate both, rather than model everything and code it separately.
[1] https://github.com/kgrgreer/foam3
[2] https://foam-framework.github.io/foam/
[3] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ea3pkTCYx4
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Programming Breakthroughs We Need
https://github.com/kgrgreer/foam3#videos
FOAM is a modelling framework that generates cross-language boilerplate for you, but it takes a much broader view of what constitutes boilerplate than most systems. Typically, it can generate between 95-98% of a working cross-language cross-tier system.
FOAM helps you create features for modelled data. Features include things like a Java/Javascript/Swift classes to hold your modelled data, code to marshall to/from JSON/XML/CSV/etc., various GUI Views, and support for storing your data in various databases or file formats. However, FOAM models are themselves modelled, meaning they're afforded all of the above benefits as well. This lets you apply the MVC technique of having multiple views work against the same underlying data-model concurrently (say a grid and a pie-chart in a spreadsheet), so that you can choose the best view or views for your current need. When treated this way, your code is no longer text (but it can be, if that's one of your views), and you can easily view and store it in many different ways and more easily programmatically manipulate it.
excalidraw
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Creating Animated Diagrams for LinkedIn
ExcaliDraw - https://excalidraw.com/
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Software Engineering Workflow
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.
- Keeping your fonts in embedded SVG
- Excalidraw
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Penrose – Penrose
Sketch easy and go back to work...
https://excalidraw.com/
What are some alternatives?
xv6-public - xv6 OS
tldraw - SDK for creating whiteboards and canvas experiences on the web.
MyDef - Programming in the next paradigm -- your way
draw.io - draw.io is a JavaScript, client-side editor for general diagramming.
TALA - A diagram layout engine designed specifically for software architecture diagrams
mermaid - Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
C4-PlantUML - C4-PlantUML combines the benefits of PlantUML and the C4 model for providing a simple way of describing and communicate software architectures
obsidian-excalidraw-plugin - A plugin to edit and view Excalidraw drawings in Obsidian
basic-computer-games - An updated version of the classic "Basic Computer Games" book, with well-written examples in a variety of common MEMORY SAFE, SCRIPTING programming languages. See https://coding-horror.github.io/basic-computer-games/
docker-draw.io - Dockerized draw.io based on tomcat:9-jre11 & tomcat:9-jre8-alpine official image.
language-server-protocol - Defines a common protocol for language servers.
drawio-desktop - Official electron build of draw.io