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Simon Willison built a web tool to convert Mermaid diagrams to Unicode box art
Willison discovered a Rust-based Mermaid renderer in Grok's open source and ported it to WebAssembly. The result is a web-based tool that renders Mermaid diagrams as Unicode box art that can be copied as text.
WHY IT MATTERS
Makes it easier to work with flowcharts in terminals and text-based environments without needing image formats, and demonstrates how open source code can be reused in innovative ways.
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