I like how this page uses ASCII diagrams converted into fancy graphical ones on-the-fly!
Looks like it's done with Shaky, which has been on HN before: http://shaky.github.bushong.net/
Really neat tool.
Looks like it's done with Shaky, which has been on HN before: http://shaky.github.bushong.net/
Really neat tool.
(weirdly the only source for it he released that I can find is buried in another git repo: https://github.com/mraleph/moe-js/tree/master/talks/jsconfeu...)
You can also notice that http://shaky.github.bushong.net/ does not support certain additional features that the post uses, e.g. it does not render curly brace or wavy "~~~~~" break line from the:
+-------+
| 1 +-+
+-------+ |
| 2 | |
+-------+ > N slots reserved for in-object properties
~~~~~~~~~ |
+-------+ |
| N +-+
+-------+http://asciiflow.com/ might be helpful otherwise.
...until you want to tweak the layout of an almost completed diagram slightly, and now you hate life.
For a particular type of diagram (notably there are very few options, and the more options you add the closer you are to needing a full diagram editing program (like asciiflow) instead of a text file) this is a great productivity booster.