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IcePanel mentions (35)

• Ask HN: Guidelines for making clear architecture diagrams

  https://icepanel.io/ The best I've ever used. - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago

• Ask HN: Anyone use a code to mindmap/flowchart tool?

  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 / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: How do you document complex software systems?

  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 / 3 months ago

• The C4 model for visualising software architecture

  The best tool for writing C4 documentation I have seen so far is https://icepanel.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Inkscape Cloud Architect

  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 / 7 months ago

Excalidraw mentions (207)

• An infinite canvas for code exploration

  To fix this, I added a digital whiteboard to my workflow, and this is phenomenal. You can use any digital whiteboard, such as https://www.figma.com/figjam/, https://excalidraw.com/, https://miro.com/, or https://obsidian.md/canvas. My workflow generally goes like:. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• Tools that Make Me Productive as a Software Engineer

  However, Notion and Obsidian can only help you write documentation. Well, how about some visuals? Let's talk about Excalidraw. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• Ask HN: Anyone use a code to mindmap/flowchart tool?

  I was happy to find out recently that there is a way to make Mermaid diagrams WYSIWYG / drag and drop editable that the open source https://excalidraw.com has and did I mention it's open source!? With a LLM, you can go full loop back to Mermaid again after a few rounds of manual editing. "What a time to be alive!". - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Show HN: Batch Image Manipulation Toolkit in Browser

  Would love more ideas for what I could add to bother, ideally mundane batch image processing tasks that can be automated. [1] https://excalidraw.com/#json=VB-95wXb8mmw-WEIe2pNu,Abn9sV1PylQ2ZPuRfwKjKQ. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: What development tools are you using for your current project?

  I'm working on a personal project and found myself looking for an alternative to Postman/Insomnia this morning. This made me realize I've been using the same tools for so long for work (mobile development, finance) that this project may be a good time to try out some new things. Here are a few tools that I've been using lately that I really enjoy: https://pocketbase.io/ - A dead-simple self-hosted... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago