linen.dev VS excalidraw

I believe this is the Elixir server they blogged about: https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev/tree/main/apps/push_s...

The code is here: https://github.com/linen-dev/linen.dev It is actually kind of tricky to self host since there are quite a few services that needs set up and we could use quite a bit of work in our documentation.

I'm hoping this concept takes off. This is the most prominent project in this space, Linen Think discord, but open source, indexable and not closed off unless otherwise specified by the people running the instance. Can even anonymize users if you so choose but the messages themselves can be searchable by the public. I think discord like communities already are the next thing in many ways, but its closed nature keeps it from getting as much regular viewership as say a subreddit, which is also indexable by the public web. I think it's the next thing because it takes what's good about reddit and discord and does away with a lot of their downsides. Oh it's open source too!

Open source https://github.com/linen-dev/linen.dev but not federated

I was reading through https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev/blob/main/docs/nextjs... and https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev/blob/main/apps/web/.e...

Do I really need all these API keys for s3, sentry, push service, ngrok, etc to run a web app on a home network?

This reminds me slightly of: https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev

This is one of the reasons I created Linen.dev(A Google searchable Slack/Discord alternative) I had a decent size Slack and Discord community for my previous project and it became a blackhole of information.

You can check it out the repo here: https://github.com/linen-dev/linen.dev

Linen.dev/s/cypress

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.