I made these A4, black & white, simple printables for the World Cup with pikchr and inkscape:

- One page for all the groups
- One page of the next 6 days of matches: UK times and TV channels

They can be filled in as results come through. I found some of the official posters too big, too noisy and with tiny text. Keeping it simple.

The scale of this World Cup is a little mad.

The font is the lovely Shantell Sans. Nothing but open source here!

#WorldCup #Inkscape #pikchr #OpenSource #FOSS

I've been playing with pikchr ('picture') a markup language for diagrams. Made a simple calendar which I can now add events to.

It's an ideal language for this kind of thing - well suited for structured diagrams but not so rigid you can't just pop a box wherever you like with some text in it.

Pikchr is 0-clause BSD and there is an online playground so no install needed:

https://pikchr.org/
https://pikchr.org/home/pikchrshow

#FOSS #OpenSource #Pikchr

Oh my! This exists and I get to know of it only today?

#Pikchr, a markup language to generate diagrams.

https://pikchr.org

It's similar to Mermaid, I guess, but written in C, not in JavaScript (yay!).

It supports both light and dark mode (super yay!).

Aaand... it's in Guix (nifty!). https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/src/branch/master/gnu/packages/pikchr.scm

I can't wait to try it out.

Last week at work I used #pikchr for the first time. It's a diagram generator that uses a text file as a source. This means that you can now easily keep track of your diagrams in a VCS (git, bah). It took me a couple of days to get used to the way it wors.

Unluckily right now the site seems down to me, but here's the link:

https://pikchr.org/

They have an online version, which is the one I used, but there's also a CLI you can install locally... at least on #Linux.

#Pikchr (pikchr.org) is a great little piece of software from the SQLite folks. It parses a little language for describing diagrams with boxes and lines and things, and puts out SVG.

#OrgMode (orgmode.org) has, among many other things, a way you can make code notebooks, #OrgBabel. Like #Jupyter, but less webby, and inside #Emacs, and supporting many languages - even multiple in the same document - thence its name.

Thanks to the ob-pikchr package by @SReyCoyrehourcq, Pikchr is one of the languages you can just write in the middle of your document this way.

Pikchr supports #darkmode, and I've just made a pull request that gets ob-pikchr in on the dark-mode game.

https://github.com/reyman/ob-pikchr/pull/1

Many thanks to Sebastien for the help ob-pikchr has provided in diagramming my thoughts! You go use it too!

#FreeSoftware

Hoy en mi blog un pequeño resumen sobre las herramientas que vengo usando últimamente para mis cosas:

https://notxor.nueva-actitud.org/2024/11/10/resumen-de-mis-ultimas-herramientas.html

#TclTk #pikchr #fossilscm #ZenBrowser