I've never made one of these so I have no idea what all the issues are but I feel like I want it to act like presentation software. I want to be able to connect boxes with lines/arrows, then drag the boxes and have the lines stay connected to the boxes. I probably also want group things like I can in most structured drawing programs. Maybe that doesn't work well with ASCII

Like a simple example, I expect if have a object selected and press Cmd/Ctrl-C, Cmd/Ctrl-V I get a duplicate.

These interactions seem like basic table stakes

Very Monodraw-like, but web-based. Same UI makes it an easy road replacement. I'll put it on my start page for when I'm not on my own machine.

• schappim

  today at 3:41 AM

  100% inspired by Monodraw.

Claude code seems to have gotten the backslashes in your circles mixed up. They look more round when \ is / and vice versa.

Wow! That was cool to play with.

1. How does one erase the drawings made with the pencil tool? 2. How'd you make this? Is this FOSS?

• schappim

  yesterday at 11:36 PM

  1. It just removes the char

  2. CC + minor tweaks by hand.

  3. Yup, go nuts, view source and pull it apart.

Similar-ish:

Show HN: ASCII based Figma like editor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594292

Both strong efforts.

• schappim

  today at 4:02 AM

  This is better than what I've thrown together, 100% recommend, would have used it if I'd known about it!