Jan 16 · 4 min read · Over the last year (actually 8 months), I managed to publish 23 posts on this blog. It meant a lot of long days, numerous lab rebuilds, half-finished markdown litter, and more time than I care to admit staring at Kubernetes YAML wondering why somethi...
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Dec 21, 2025 · 2 min read · Sankey diagrams are powerful tools for visualizing flows of data, showing how values move from one set of categories to another. They are particularly useful for displaying energy flows, financial transfers, or user journeys etc. A sankey diagram con...
Join discussionNov 25, 2025 · 17 min read · Note: This post was originally published on Entropic Drift. The Problem with AI-Generated Diagrams When building the MkDocs automation workflow for ripgrep, I ran into a consistent problem: diagrams could be syntactically incorrect or cognitively ov...
Join discussionOct 30, 2025 · 1 min read · SenseFlow For my 31st sketch of Mathober2025 graphed in MermaidJs, SenseFlow takes the prompt of Digraph Sink and uses the Senses as an example as such Images Original Graph Code/Graph stateDiagram-v2 [Senses] --> [Smell] [Senses] --> [T...
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Oct 27, 2025 · 4 min read · The ArtSnap App We are building an ArtSnap App, a lightweight and modular art collection platform where a user can: View a list of artworks stored locally in the database. Add new artwork details, including name, artist, year, and image. Search im...
Join discussionJan 26, 2025 · 6 min read · In today's rapidly evolving tech landscape, designing complex cloud-native architectures has become a fundamental skill for developers and solution architects. But creating these visualizations manually can be time-consuming and tedious. What if you ...
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Nov 19, 2024 · 18 min read · Coding can be intense. Especially when you are knee-deep in debugging or trying to map complex projects. For many developers — novice and pros alike — it is not uncommon to spend hours staring at code, looking for answers that won’t come. You have tr...
Join discussionAug 25, 2024 · 7 min read · Google Sheets has a ton of different chart types built-in, but there are a few types missing like Class, Sequence and Sankey diagrams, to name a few. When it comes to these types of charts, you usually have to export your sheets data to another tool,...
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Jul 31, 2024 · 2 min read · Overview I usually work on upcoming Hashnode articles on my local machine in Markdown. And I am a big fan in using Mermaid.js diagrams to illustrate workflows in the form of flowcharts and other available format. Hashnode editor currently do not supp...
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Jun 12, 2024 · 2 min read · Make sure to pick x86-64 VM as Puppeteer, which mermaid-cli is dependent on, is not available for ARM processors. (Reference) Dependencies To successfully run Mermaid CLI, you need to install several dependencies that Puppeteer relies on. Execute the...
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