Why is excalidraw so good?

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  • excalidraw

    Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

  • As far as I can tell, https://excalidraw.com/ is already possible to use offline, since it seems to be a PWA.

    Just a friendly reminder that "web !== requiring internet 24/7 internet connectivity", many client-side applications works even if you go offline, granted you have loaded the page at least once before.

    Try loading the page, disconnecting your internet and then doing a hard-refresh/reload your browser.

  • kidpix

    JSKIDPIX v1.0.2021

  • If you're in the mood to take a trip down memory lane:

    https://kidpix.app/

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • opendyslexic

    OpenDyslexic, a typeface that uses typeface shapes & features to help offset some visual symptoms of Dyslexia. Now in SIL-OFL.

  • Another one is OpenDyslexic

    https://opendyslexic.org/

    Notice how parts of the letters are weighted.

    And its monospace equivalent for coding is OpenDyslexicMono

  • mermaid

    Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown

  • I used to use it a bit to draw graphs, but I've since come across mermaid[0] and it's even better for this task. It doesn't have the kind of flexibility a mouse based tool like excalidraw has but it's faster and easier to use for me.

    [0] https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid

  • virgil

    The font that powers Excalidraw (by excalidraw)

  • We’ve open sourced the font and made a lot of small but important changes to it over the past 6 months. If you are willing to help, it would be great if you could open an issue with specific words that are difficult to read with your dyslexia and we can figure out how to tweak the font to remove the ambiguity. Thanks for bringing this up!

    https://github.com/excalidraw/virgil

  • cosmogfx

    Build-once run-anywhere OpenGL application

  • redbean has a https://redbean.dev/#LaunchBrowser function that lets you leverage the highest quality cross-platform gui that's already installed on the user's local machine. Think of it like Electron except with a 1mb install size rather than 100mb. I'm the author and I can tell you cosmo and redbean are ready to serve you, and if they aren't, then I want to know about it.

    We're also working to expand into OpenGL UX too. You can see our latest progress at https://github.com/jacereda/cosmogfx and the screenshots are here https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/35#issuecomment-... which we're working hard to polish and get merged into the mainline. If you read threads like https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/309 you can see we're committed to making sure your gui apps just work even on traditionally underserved platforms like OpenBSD because our goal is to help you reach the broadest audience possible.

    Please consider supporting the project!

  • cosmopolitan

    build-once run-anywhere c library

  • redbean has a https://redbean.dev/#LaunchBrowser function that lets you leverage the highest quality cross-platform gui that's already installed on the user's local machine. Think of it like Electron except with a 1mb install size rather than 100mb. I'm the author and I can tell you cosmo and redbean are ready to serve you, and if they aren't, then I want to know about it.

    We're also working to expand into OpenGL UX too. You can see our latest progress at https://github.com/jacereda/cosmogfx and the screenshots are here https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/35#issuecomment-... which we're working hard to polish and get merged into the mainline. If you read threads like https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/309 you can see we're committed to making sure your gui apps just work even on traditionally underserved platforms like OpenBSD because our goal is to help you reach the broadest audience possible.

    Please consider supporting the project!

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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