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One way would be to use emacs’ artist-mode to draw ascii lines and boxes then use ditaa[1] to transform them into images. It’s not a pretty packaged GUI app but it’s certainly an option [1] https://ditaa.sourceforge.net/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
Love it! If you've never looked into it, you might find the old ditaa inspiring. Looks like you're already well on your way to a product, though. Source: over 1 year ago
Something not mentioned here is http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ This project is in java (ew) but it's open source and could probably use a rewrite in something more modern. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
Ditaa - a small command-line utility written in Java, that can convert diagrams drawn using ascii art. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago
It would be nice to have this tool: http://ditaa.sourceforge.net/ So ASCII drawings could be rendered into pretty ones. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
I use UML quite a bit but it's never really what I'm after, somnething more modern and fluid and gui driven that more people can use. Icepanel [1] looks really cool but I haven't tested it and I'm not sure it really fits my use case. It seems like it's mostly for api driven rpc/grpc/rest services when I kind of want to use it to visualize backend/infra/terraform sort of things. Might be interesting to you. [1] -... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
1. We started using https://icepanel.io/ for microservices, Software, anything thats documentable for later read. 2. More diagrams, less key strokes 3. We have dedicated page owners on confluence, its mix of engineers, leaders, PM's, QA etc. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
The best tool for writing C4 documentation I have seen so far is https://icepanel.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
I really like the C4 model as part of a larger toolset. If you’re also using it then I recommend looking at https://icepanel.io/ Great tooling strongly based on C4, I use it a lot. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
I recommend trying https://icepanel.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
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