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> But man, endlessly fiddling to fix the layouts is time I'd like back in my life I know many engineers are perfectionists, but pick your battles. It’s not as
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> But man, endlessly fiddling to fix the layouts is time I'd like back in my life
I know many engineers are perfectionists, but pick your battles. It’s not as if the alternative of manually laying out every node and edge and maintaining it is universally better.
- thangalin 5y ago> pick your battles And your text-based diagram tools. Kroki[1] has merged block, sequence, Plant UML, packet, Mermaid, GraphViz, and numerous other textual diagram formats into a simple REST API. A while back I integrated the API into my text editor so that I could use variables inside of diagrams[2] (such as character names in a sci-fi story that are also presented in a GraphViz-based family tree). [1]: https://kroki.io/ https://kroki.io/ [2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/screenshots.md https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/scr...