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Re: Monodraw

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It's also allowed. This is my first exposure to it, despite being a regular. Looks like a cool app.

"If I haven't seen it, it's new to me!" feels apropos... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4nTu0ldFvQ

One of today's lucky 10,000.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Re: Monodraw

#122

Will love to buy this once I get my Mac. Looks great, and also love the perpetual license for $9.99 rather than the host of subscription services, i'll probably end up buying it just to support good practices.

That's cool … but we're calling buying an app licensing it now? That word is a red flag for me — wondering what dark pattern is awaiting, finding myself digging for the fine print…

At least back in the day, it used to be common to "buy a license" or "buy a serial key". I didn't really put too much thought into the phrasing, as I haven't received any feedback.

Regardless, when you buy it, it's yours forever - no activation, no DRM, no subscription, no fine print.

(Monodraw developer here).

Re: Monodraw

#123

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Would this tell the screen reader to just ignore it? Then you'd lose all accessibility for its content.

I believe role=“img” tells it to behave like one, causing the descriptive text to be read out in its place.

Yeah, that seems bad. The whole point of the diagram was to explain something better than prose could, and now it is lost. I'm thinking the case were someone can make out the shapes/arrows/colors well, but not the text.

Re: Monodraw

#124

Will love to buy this once I get my Mac. Looks great, and also love the perpetual license for $9.99 rather than the host of subscription services, i'll probably end up buying it just to support good practices.

That's cool … but we're calling buying an app licensing it now? That word is a red flag for me — wondering what dark pattern is awaiting, finding myself digging for the fine print…

Maybe just semantics? I think "license" is more technically correct. Even in the best consumer case, you are only "buying" a perpetual right to use a software product. Optionally, you might also get updates.

In the US, the First-Sale Doctrine won't apply to software (unlike tangible books and records) so you probably do not have the right to sell your copy of this software to another person.

Since that's not true ownership, I think it can only be described as a license.

But I'll agree that all sorts of shenanigans can, and often do, hide under that generic term. However, "buy" could suggest many substantial rights that are not on offer (most importantly distribution), so it's a bit of a quandary.

The phrase "Buy Now - $9.99, yours forever" might thread the needle. The sale page would still need to include all the legal terms, of course. I think "license" is a necessary word there.

Re: Monodraw

#125

Some relevant browser based ascii-drawing tools. https://app.monosketch.io/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210503172024/https://fatiherik... https://textik.com/# https://asciiflow.com/#/ https://fsymbols.com/draw/

Don’t forget emacs. It has artist-mode.

TIL: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ArtistMode

Re: Monodraw

#126

Some relevant browser based ascii-drawing tools. https://app.monosketch.io/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210503172024/https://fatiherik... https://textik.com/# https://asciiflow.com/#/ https://fsymbols.com/draw/

Don’t forget emacs. It has artist-mode.

Vim’s modal editing, sans plugins, works surprisingly well for drawing too. Visual block mode is also helpful. At least in my experience, I built a puzzle game with pixel art elements[1] and I drew the initial puzzles in vim.

[1]: https://apps.apple.com/app/nonoverse-nonogram-puzzles/id6748...

Re: Monodraw

#127
Can LLMs understand ascii drawings? Or produce them?

I’m trying to figure out a way to organize thoughts with charts in a way that provides useful context to an LLM and also that an LLM could theoretically generate.

Re: Monodraw

#129
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ok.. web app? (not a programmer, so no idea if a web app is any different from a development standpoint)

Targeting Windows/Linux/web still means I cannot re-use the sources. But targeting web might be faster in terms of development time, although I don't have deep expertise on non-Apple platforms, so I cannot say for sure.

Targeting the web will remove your giant advantage: native UI.

Re: Monodraw

#130

Some relevant browser based ascii-drawing tools. https://app.monosketch.io/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210503172024/https://fatiherik... https://textik.com/# https://asciiflow.com/#/ https://fsymbols.com/draw/

https://github.com/cwensley/pablodraw

https://alternativeto.net/software/monodraw/

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