written by Roni Kobrosly on 2026-01-05 | tags: engineering open source
I forget how it started but recently I've been enjoying making these cool retro-ish, ASCII flow diagrams for my personal projects. They look like something you'd find in a dusty cabinet of early NASA documents. Obviously, I can't use them at the large enterprise organization I work at these days, but maybe some day I'll be able to bust these out processionally...
Give it a shot, here's the GitHub repo!
Finding the right pathing for the arrows, given a set of constraints (avoid overlapping and criss-crossing arrows), is trickier than you might think.
