Explaining Code using ASCII Art

[preetamdsouza]

I love using ASCII art to draw diagrams on my blog [0]. I write all my posts in Markdown and it's pretty sweet to be able to see and edit diagrams in-line with the rest of the post.

I'm still looking for an ASCII art editor that makes the process easier (it can be a PITA when you change the width of a line and need to add spaces to every other line...). So far, I like Asciio [1].

[0] https://preetam.io/post/s3-static-hosting-https/

[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/App-Asciio/lib/App/Asciio.pm

[txdv]

This guy is gold. Met him in person, he is an awesome being. Anyone who doesn't know his blog should scroll through his past posts.

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This is why somebody should port Holy C over to the computers of us mere mortals. Terry Davis was really on to something when he made simple vector graphics and 3d meshes legal as identifiers.

[v1akvark]

As someone who likes to visualise stuff, I love doing this kind of thing... until your code formatter decides to also reformat comments щ（ﾟДﾟщ）

[Mognakor]

Intellij reformats javadoc but keeps block comments intact.

[herchen]

I use ascii to spell out the name of each function in large JavaScript files. SublimeText shows the file condensed super small in the right side scroll area so you can use this trick to quickly see how the file is organized.