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    Comment #47006109

    https://cascii.app can :)

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    Comment #46569726

    https://cascii.app many more features :)

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    Comment #46569686

    What tools can we actually use to draw ASCII manually if desired? None are mentioned. E.g I made https://cascii.app for exactly this purpose.

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    Comment #43402891

    v1.0.1 now has offline import/export https://github.com/casparwylie/cascii-core

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    Comment #43402852

    v1.0.1 now has offline import/export https://github.com/casparwylie/cascii-core

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    Comment #43402847

    v1.0.1 now has offline import/export https://github.com/casparwylie/cascii-core

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    Comment #43402839

    v1.0.1 now has offline import/export https://github.com/casparwylie/cascii-core

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    Comment #43402836

    v1.0.1 now has offline import/export https://github.com/casparwylie/cascii-core

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    Comment #43402830

    Version 1.0.1 now has offline base64 import / export so you can permanently save drawings offline.

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    Comment #43399133

    I have thought about this a lot. I was going to do some stuff with gzip, but fundementally, I came to the conclusion that the most elegant solution (no hidden chars / extra encoded…

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    Comment #43398682

    Bit of a nightmare getting this elegant enough on a phone, and doubt anyone wants to draw ASCII digrams on their phone anyway, so not really a priority!

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    Comment #43397487

    It really depends how much demand there is. It's a great next step but a lot of work - I was thinking about training a neural net to parse images / 3rd party diagrams into Cascii, …

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    Comment #43397176

    Yeah I'd like to talk about going back to basics with single-HTML / vanilla JS. It was a great experience, though admittedly controversial and I was expecting more people to be ant…

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    Comment #43396875

    Please see https://cascii.app where short links are coupled with your exports

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    Comment #43396790

    Nice! Yea it should be easy to use the internal layerManager.import and .encodeAll This might break state for the online version, but I can do some tweaks and get it merged if you …

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    Comment #43396683

    I know it's controversial to do things this way, but given it's a personal project and focuses on portability, I think the benefits are worth while. I have taken care to break thin…

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    Comment #43393970

    Thank you!

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    Comment #43393857

    Glad you asked. Have you checked the online version https://cascii.app There, all exported drawings come with a short link. This is so that months later anyone reading / seeing can…

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    Comment #43393608

    Fixed. Thanks for raising :)

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    Comment #43393531

    A co-worker recently showed me this. It seems really good. If they did ASCII diagrams I'd probably have never made this project!

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    Comment #43393459

    Really glad to hear it. Enjoy!

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    Comment #43381405

    Thank you! I’m hoping the short link feature makes it useful over time / maintainable which would otherwise be tricky for when code changes.

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    Comment #43381304

    Interesting. I haven't come across this one before. I always found auto-rendering ones to be annoyingly less predictable. Thanks for sharing.

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    Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript

    3 months ago I wanted to draw an ASCII diagram to include in some documentation at work. I found the few tools online to be insufficient, and was suprised there wasn't a more compl…