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Textik Landing Page
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Textik

Textik is a free ASCII diagrams editor which allows you to create any text-based ASCII diagram.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Development #Diagrams #Flowcharts 5 social mentions
Excalidraw Landing Page
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Excalidraw

Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I recently discovered https://excalidraw.com/ for "informal" diagrams that work well in presentations.

#Sketching #Digital Whiteboard #Digital Drawing And Painting 206 social mentions
Medium Landing Page
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Medium

Welcome to Medium, a place to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you.
Pricing:
- Open Source
This is one of my favourite features of XCode. If you "// MARK:" lines, they'll show up in the minimap. Eg. https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/1*j38oOm3Pt5AMnDI3HQ6TGQ.png Screenshot stolen from this Medium[0]. [0]: https://medium.com/@mumtaz.hussain/xcode-11-now-makes-mark-comments-a-lot-more-useful-with-minimap-feature-f8c658b293f.

#Blogging #Blogging Platform #CMS 2197 social mentions
Productivity Power Tools Landing Page
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Productivity Power Tools

Extension for Visual Studio - A set of extensions to Visual Studio 2012 Professional (and above) which improves developer productivity.
Pricing:
- Open Source
[0]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=heyimfuzz.banner-comments.

#Regular Expressions #Programming Tools #Development 359 social mentions
Kroki Landing Page
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Kroki

Creates diagrams from textual descriptions! It provides a unified API with support for BlockDiag, BPMN, Bytefield, C4 (with PlantUML), Ditaa, Erd, GraphViz, Mermaid, Nomnoml, PlantUML, SvgBob, UMLet, Vega, Vega-Lite, WaveDrom
Pricing:
- Open Source
Https://kroki.io offers numerous text description syntaxes to generate such diagrams, including packet diagrams. https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite (my text editor) will render diagrams in quasi-real-time by sending requests to kroki.

#Diagrams #Flowcharts #Prototyping 31 social mentions
replit Landing Page

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replit

Code, create, andlearn together. Use our free, collaborative, in-browser IDE to code in 50+ languages — without spending a second on setup.

I love this and I'm going to use it for fancy comments in code and in the browser console. It'd be really cool if you could integrate something like http://www.figlet.org/ for inserting ASCII text art. I wish I had known about this tool when I building this little browser game https://replit.com/@aMoniker/Gush because all the levels & game objects are generated from multiline strings of ascii symbols, and it just took too long to do manually.

#Programming #Programming Tools #IDEs And Text Editors 603 social mentions