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svgbob
Rust2016–2022
ivanceras / svgbob

svgbob

Convert your ascii diagram scribbles into happy little SVG

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0Explicit recommenders
4.2KGitHub stars
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Convert your ascii diagram scribbles into happy little SVG

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Observed mentions: 2016-10-10 06:13:42 UTC to 2022-06-27 12:49:02 UTC.

02462016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

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Man - this is my fkn brand. Plain text is almost a universal truth -- and it's easy to church up your documentation with a well presented ASCII chart. Some ANSI Color Codes and ASCIInema can carry you a long way. Here's a list of plain text information tools from my notes: https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/ https://gitlab.com/mbarkhau/asciigrid/ ascii-tables is exactly what is says on the label. https://ozh.github.io/ascii-tables/ https://github.com/ozh/ascii-tables/ https://www.netpen.io/main/ https://github.com/ebirger/netpen/ svgbob and svg-term are both great for creating SVGs out of these plain text files: https://github.com/marionebl/svg-term-cli/ https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/ https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbob/ Here are some TUI/CLI focused frameworks. These are over kill for me - but maybe
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In Explaining Code Using ASCII Art
> Some basic requirements are: - searchable - code snippets - hyperlinking I think another requirement to add is diagramming. I think wiki-style diagramming would be a big help for programmers to better communicate ideas. I've used external tools like draw.io but the overhead for editing, downloading, and uploading I feel gets in the way. Sadly, we are on confluence but don't use the draw.io plugin [1]. Built-in support for dot, uml, or even ascii diagrams [2] would be big help. [1] https://about.draw.io/integrations/confluence-integration-2/ [2] e.g. https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbob
In Ask HN: Which Wiki or internal documentation tools do you use?

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