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I'm using this low level SVG library: https://svgjs.com/docs/3.0/
Ah that’s cool. Any reason you picked that over a canvas implementation?
TBH, I saw that's what another popular diagramming tool was using.
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I'm not a native English speaker and the fact that this is such a common error among native speakers baffles me because the rules that govern these things are very simple. Conventions about when to omit the 's' after the apostrophe differ from one set of guidelines to another (see e.g. https://www.dailywritingtips.com/possessive-of-proper-names-... ), but that's the only non-uniform thing about it. There's nothing we…
Apostrophes are confusing and overloaded for several purposes. His report card received four A’s and two B’s. So, for plurals. Sometimes. Possessives, sometimes, and sometimes omitting the s after an s, other times not. And contractions, where ' is a placeholder for 9 or 10 different things. ""add 's, except if the noun already has an s at the end" Texas's laws are conservative. (You'll find credible style guides wit…
Right, forgot about A's and B's -- we don't use that grading system over here (although, FWIW, I've seen guidebooks that recommend As, Bs and 1s and 2s, because ABCs is also fine and the 1800s is a thing that has to be distinguished from the 1800s'). There's a lot of regional variation, too, which is inevitable considering that English is used from Brisbane to London and from Alaska to California.
But, seriously, every non-constructed language on Earth has exceptions that you have to memorize along with the rules. English doesn't have that many, and it doesn't have too many rules, either. I'm fluent in two other languages (French and my own), and I'm somewhat familiar with a few more languages of Latin, Slavic and Celtic descent. English is a breeze compared to any of them.
Re: Show HN: Terrastruct – A Diagramming Tool for Systems
#93Any relationship to terraform?
Nope
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#94Hi HN, I made a diagramming tool specifically for explaining systems. It's something that I felt like I could've needed at my previous engineering jobs when I was explaining some software architecture or concept that were complex and I had trouble expressing on a single image diagram. Would love to hear HN's thoughts and feedback!
I've often needed something like this, but, sadly, once again, this isn't it. No discredit to you; this is great work, but for me, personally: The world does not need more diagram editors. Diagrams are fundamentally not the right tool for the problem I have. The problem I have is that I have a technical system, for example, a network diagram, or an architecture diagram of a system or set of systems; and I need the da…
It's kind of an old-school tool, but Enterprise Architect is a tool that does just this. It's also a completely overwrought model-based engineering thing but ignore that and it's a useful systems/data architecture model database tool.
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#95alt: https://www.archimatetool.com/ https://plantuml.com/archimate-diagram https://c4model.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21032805
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#96Can I nitpick two things about the website? I don't mean to be an asshole about it or anything, I just hope it can help in some way: - I think the mobile detection thing uses nothing but window size to determine if this is on a mobile browser or a desktop, so it mistakes my (definitely desktop) browser window for a mobile one. I know from my friends who do frontend stuff that reliably detecting a mobile browser isn't…
I'm curious, do you (or anyone else) even have an interest in creating diagrams on mobile? It's never crossed my mind as a conducive platform for creating diagram because of the small screen size. I've thought about viewing diagrams in mobile, but again I'm unsure of the desire from other people to do so. (It isn't too hard to get this working as a viewing platform for mobile)
I use draw.io a lot and I can't imagine trying to do anything productive with it on mobile. Viewing diagrams would definitely be appreciated.
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I'm curious, do you (or anyone else) even have an interest in creating diagrams on mobile? It's never crossed my mind as a conducive platform for creating diagram because of the small screen size. I've thought about viewing diagrams in mobile, but again I'm unsure of the desire from other people to do so. (It isn't too hard to get this working as a viewing platform for mobile)
I experimented with it on my iPad, and came away frustrated. I definitely like to use my iPad when practical.
Same and diagramming seems like something that a tablet touch interface should be good at. I just use the omnigraffle app though so it’s unlikely I’d bother with a webapp tool.
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Probably because of weird rules like "children's room" and "four cows' pasture", then the contrary notion that "it's" is incorrect for possessive form because "it is" already used for a contraction of "it is". English sucks.
I'm not a native English speaker and the fact that this is such a common error among native speakers baffles me because the rules that govern these things are very simple. Conventions about when to omit the 's' after the apostrophe differ from one set of guidelines to another (see e.g. https://www.dailywritingtips.com/possessive-of-proper-names-... ), but that's the only non-uniform thing about it. There's nothing we…
Perhaps it's because there's no phonetic difference that native speakers would not have learned the spelling or the rules at the same time, and thus make the error more commonly, due to not having felt a formalized understanding of the rules was necessary.
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He means using a language to generate diagrams. (I use a personal tool that has a LISP-like language to generate simple block diagrams in JavaFX for myself).
Ah. Yeah if this is something people use and I can support myself with it, I would love to work on adding that.
Every couple years I go through the exercise of trying to find the right solution like d3.js, mermaid, or dot and graphviz to automatically generate diagrams like you're creating here. Every couple years I continue to be disappointed.
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#100The layers are fun, but without some form of linking between elements and layers, it becomes hard to figure out what relationship there is between them.
I'd also enjoy a slightly easier way to link things. Having to drag an arrow from the sidebar to the field, then manually link the two points is quite slow. Normally these systems have a sort of handle when you've selected something that allows you to make a new arrow to another item.