Vector Magic Reviews

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1. jorge

   · CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA · over 6 years ago
   It is a nice mini-blog, it's for free and such but

   As a mini-blog, it is a nice alternative for Medium to publish and share information about programming.

   However, the community and the organization are biased toward social justice (and they are open to it). You can read its Code of Conduct, it is so vague and politically leads (I prefer a term of service because it defines fair rules for everybody). So it alienates developers that we don't care about politics in pro of people that want to talk about any other topic such as sexuality, how women are unprivileged, and such. It even mandates to use inclusive language. Good grief.

   My main complaint is the quality of the community. It is not StackOverflow (so we don't want to ask for an answer here), and most of the top topics are clickbait, such as "how to become a rockstar developer in ... days", "100 tips to become a better programmer" (and it doesn't even talk about programming).

   Technically this "mini blog" site allows us to use markdown, and it is okay. However, the whole experience is really basic. Even the template is ugly.

   🏁 Competitors: Medium

   👍 Pros:    Free

   👎 Cons:    Social justice|Basic features|Quality of content

Vector Magic mentions (37)

• Show HN: I built a free SVG Web site

  I used this tool. I tried a number of them and this seemed the best: https://vectormagic.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Show HN: I built a free SVG Web site

  I looked at a bunch of Vectorising tools, and in the end used https://vectormagic.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Apple's classic Pascal poster, remade as a nice clean vector image [pdf]

  I think vector magic is the current state of the art: https://vectormagic.com/?=20 No one seems to have tried to leverage deep learning yet; either because they haven't thought of doing so, or it just wouldn't be worthwhile. Image to SVG's are an inherently deterministic task, with not much room for the noisy error of most deep learning models like stable diffusion and such. I think algorithmic approaches... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Show HN: AI Generated SVG's

  The best pixel to vector is still vectormagic. They are on it since at least 2009 and have a native desktop app. I am not affiliated but just a bit flabbergasted that they are still so far ahead. https://vectormagic.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Vtracer: Next-Gen Raster-to-Vector Conversion

  This is the most impressive raster to vector I have seen: https://vectormagic.com Vtracer doesn't seem to do as well. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

DEV.to mentions (669)

• Building the flagship (2): a live DataGrid that queries Postgres on every keystroke

  Nothing you write. The grid's controls are the same data-flv-* conventions from part 3: the search box is a data-flv-change input that sends {"q": ""}, a filter pill is a data-flv-click with a data-flv-value-estado, a sortable header sends {"sort": "cargo"}. The framework serializes those into the socket message; your loop reads them from frame.payload. The diff engine sends only the s that changed. Keyed diffing... - Source: dev.to / about 16 hours ago

• How to find a device by its MAC address

  You can collect all of that by hand, or let a scanner do it in one pass. DeviceShelf resolves vendor, hostname, services and open ports for every device on the network and turns them into an actual identification; the same IEEE data behind our lookup page ships inside the app. For the full detective story, see the guide on identifying an unknown device. - Source: dev.to / 5 days ago

• "My pending() Function Learned to Draft Against Nested Comments. My audit() Function Never Learned to Look for Them."

  Def _walk_comments(comment): """Yield this comment and every comment in its subtree, at any depth.""" yield comment for child in comment["children"]: yield from _walk_comments(child) Def audit(): ... for a in my_articles(): if not a["comments_count"]: continue for root_comment in api(f"/comments?a_id={a['id']}"): for c in... - Source: dev.to / 8 days ago

• 🍣 Sushi RS: SVG Sushi Components for Rust Frontends.

  So I came across the Frontend Challenge: Comfort Food Edition on dev.to, and I thought: "Hey, what if I build a Rust crate that lets you render SVG sushi directly in your WASM frontend? How hard can it be?". - Source: dev.to / 9 days ago

• Woof Are You, Really? A Dog Personality Quiz Built in a Weekend

  This is a tiny, silly personality quiz built for the DEV.to Weekend Doggos challenge. Answer questions about your Saturday mornings, your feelings on doorbells, and your ideal compliment — and find out which dog breed you truly are today. (Not forever. Today. Check back tomorrow, you might be a different dog.). - Source: dev.to / 10 days ago