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Terrastruct mentions (15)

• From SVG to Canvas – A new way of building interactions

  i'm building a diagramming tool (https://terrastruct.com) and still umm and ah b/t it. I'm kind of waiting for webgpu to reach 95+% browser support before switching though. If I do all the work of switching, SVG better not get gpu/hardware-acceleration support the next day. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Top 7 diagrams as code tools for software architecture

  D2 from Terrastruct is a diagram scripting language that turns text into diagrams. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• free-for.dev

  Terrastruct.com — Online diagram maker specifically for software architecture. Free tier up to 4 layers per diagram. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• [Help wanted] Looking for an enterprise friendly SaaS for drawing diagrams from text

  Thank you! Yeah, you can play with it on https://terrastruct.com. Apologies that it requires an account right now, it'll have a playground that doesn't require an account soon. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Visualizing software designs, especially of large systems (if at all)?

  I'm a big fan of Terrastruct (https://terrastruct.com/). They focus on building great software for visualizing complex software architecture. Their secret sauce is this idea of attention where they allow you to zoom in and out so you can get the 10 foot view or 10,000 foot view, whatever you find most useful. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Excalidraw mentions (208)

• 17 Best Developer Productivity Tools to Try

  Diagrams and visualizations are often indispensable when explaining complex concepts or designing system architectures. Excalidraw and Whimsical are two popular quick drawing tools that allow developers to create diagrams easily. With their simple yet powerful interface, developers can create wireframes, flowcharts, and other visual representations in no time. These tools are great for both brainstorming ideas and... - Source: dev.to / 1 day ago

• 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 / 5 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