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houfu started reading Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques by Ashley Peacock

Ashley Peacock: Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques (The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC)

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Diagrams communicate relationships more directly and clearly than words ever can. Using only text-based markup, …

Books explaining UML are hard to come by. I'm hoping I can finally figure out what UML is and how it is used in software development. Furthermore, using markdown to draw diagrams sounds like a better idea than manually shifting boxes in Powerpoint!

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@[email protected] and I were discussing generating diagrams from text the other day. I use Mermaid (mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid) regularly myself. It's so much better than manually shifting boxes and lines in Word or PowerPoint. Now, if only PowerPoint and LibreOffice Impress had built-in support for editing Mermaid diagrams 🤔.

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