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D2 v0.2.2 (text-to-diagram language)(github.com)
3 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|0 comments
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Dark Mode Responsive Diagrams(d2lang.com)
2 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|0 comments
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Diagrams that change colors for dark mode preference(github.com)
1 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|0 comments
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D2 0.2.1(github.com)
2 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|0 comments
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
We offer a drag-and-drop UX, where edits made are written back to the text: https://terrastruct.com (it's not Mermaid, but a similar text-to-diagram language)
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
You can compare at https://text-to-diagram.com (disclaimer: i made it, but it's all open-source, the maintainers of mermaid have contributed to it).
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
we made the change to Linear, but ultimately, made the change back to GitHub Issues. Their marketing and devrel is good -- it convinced me without actually considering its merits, that surely everyone must be buying into it for a reason. Ul
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
you could just resubmit, and leave a comment here pointing there. i'll look for it in the new section to upvote!
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
Hah, typically this line goes, "once Google/big tech does this, you're in trouble". The reality is like that xkcd meme of some random dev in midwest US supporting critical infra with their open source efforts. GitHub nat
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
this is also bundled in D2
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Deep dive into diagram layout engines: Minimizing hierarchical edge crossings(terrastruct.com)
70 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|13 comments
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Diagram layout engines: Minimizing hierarchical edge crossings(terrastruct.com)
2 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|0 comments
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
Thanks for the reply. > If you don't mind sharing, what's that project about? I maintain another text-to-diagram language, and we host a playground ( https://play.d2lang.com ). I want to let people make collaborative
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
Really cool, thanks for sharing! Would you have chosen Etherpad if you had to do it again? (I'm thinking of adding text collaboration to an open-source project I maintain). Did you get requests to support non-Etherpad servers?
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
Ah I see. Thank you. RIP indeed =(
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
Why are they having the funeral less than 2 weeks after a "suspension" of the API, after 10+ years of work? Twitter under the new management is making rash decisions but also has been reversing many. I still have Tweetbot app on m
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
oh i actually did play it a few years back when I launched Terrastruct (company behind D2). It was just a solo-effort bare bones project at the time, but I reached out to a hunter and all that. Got 112 upvotes ( https://www.produc
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
ProductHunt is very gamified. You have to jump through their hoops to do well, reach out to "hunters" (these guys will put this badge on their twitter/linkedin) to post for you to get the boost from their following, schedule
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
my go-to when I make example diagrams is silly fake startups. Architecture of a VR for Chinchillas app. https://app.terrastruct.com/diagrams/2034296181
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Generating diagrams programmatically(terrastruct.com)
2 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|0 comments
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
Yes, the SQL generator is limited. It's like 20 lines long and not the point of the article, which is to demonstrate the API. If you want to compare Mermaid against D2, take a look at https://text-to-diagram.com . The mainta
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Generate diagrams programmatically with D2(terrastruct.com)
9 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|2 comments
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
if you're talking about the playground, I did the initial version in a weekend or so ( https://github.com/terrastruct/d2-playground ), which includes building a WASM version of D2 (written in Go), putting a text edi
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
After years of Flow, Typescript, Webpack, React, JSX, etc, I went back to just vanilla HTML, CSS, JS for my most recent production project ( https://play.d2lang.com , which is open source). The experience was great. I didn't
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
I think you might've misunderstood. The text generates a visual diagram. Like HTML generates a website. You're not showing customers the text, you show them the diagram. You don't show customers HTML, you show them the site.
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
That's like saying code has problems because end users hate it -- end users don't see it.
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
you can do this in Terrastruct ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhxVVkxv2Ns ), which uses the open-source D2 ( https://github.com/terrastruct/d2 ) for its code
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
This is a problem with the languages, not a fundamental flaw. Well designed GUI can beat poorly designed language, but manipulating text has a much higher ceiling than drag and drop, in terms of speed and comfort/familiarity. Every pro
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
Thank you, feel free to email me, happy to discount for feedback.
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
There's an important distinction between 2 categories in architecture diagrams: 1. Free-form. You have an image of what it should look like. It's precise. An algorithm won't be able to get it right. 2. Structured. You just wa

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