Spongedown
Dev tools
markdown editor
SHOW HN2017
Spongedown
This is inspired by my first project when I was still a student(2002's).
ivanceras.github.ioHow HN took it
4 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.16.
Performance: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 against
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun idea and cool to try
From 3 comments
This is awesome, great job!
wjvdhoek on HNI liked this a lot. It was fun pasting some of my diagrams in to see how svgbob rendered them. I think I still prefer a monospaced font in the SVG (but that's easy to do with CSS).
xnxn on HNWhile ascii art is not easy to edit (it is simple enough for many uses) it shares all other advantages of readable plain text formats. I loved it.
scardine on HN
Objections
Very slow to render and crashes browsers
From 4 comments
Really, really, slow. Crashed my computer. Interesting idea, though.
bobinatorino on HNUnsure what you did wrong, but this took about a minute to process the panel on the right, before firefox crashed, taking the whole system with it. Had to hard reset on from the…
tenryuu on HNI get ``` Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded ``` after about 30 seconds.
exikyut on HNTakes 10 seconds to load on a Xeon...
simlevesque on HN
Text diagrams are fragile and hard to edit
From 2 comments
This is cool, but why would I want to draw diagrams like this? There's a plethora of tools out there that make drawing diagrams pretty simple, why do I want to do it with text?…
jbob2000 on HNI like them personally (ASCII Diagrams), but creating them is very difficult. I'm rarely concerned with getting them to other formats, my goal when creating them was a text…
notheguyouthink on HN
Does not work well on mobile
From 1 comment
Does not look good on mobile browser
lonesword on HN
Requests
A paint-style editor that produces text diagrams
From 2 comments
If you made a Spongedown vi/emacs/nano editor that had paint-like features (place speech bubble, place resistor, place trace, place line, etc) then this would become practical.
gravypod on HNI could understand this as an interchange format. However for it to be really useful it should be accompanied by a GUI tool that allows you to only draw diagrams which are…
yoz-y on HN
Questions
Why draw diagrams as text instead of with existing tools
From 1 comment
This is cool, but why would I want to draw diagrams like this? There's a plethora of tools out there that make drawing diagrams pretty simple, why do I want to do it with text?…
jbob2000 on HN
Alternatives named
Monodraw
From 2 comments
I do ascii diagrams all the time. I use Monodraw for that. From a design point of view the restrictions it imposes also create a consistent look and feel. Everything is aligned…
fimdomeio on HNI like them personally (ASCII Diagrams), but creating them is very difficult. I'm rarely concerned with getting them to other formats, my goal when creating them was a text…
notheguyouthink on HN
asciiflow
From 1 comment
http://asciiflow.com/ is invaluable for some pretty quick ASCII diagramming that I can paste into source code or chat or wherever later. But I like that they don't have a billion…
Jach on HN
Emacs artist-mode
From 1 comment
Emacs: M-x artist-mode Shift-MouseButton2, select Drawing → Rectangle
teddyh on HN