It appears a little buggy handling fixed width improperly, noticeably when using a mouse to write out a word, with uneven drawing, the fixed width spacing does not consistently properly match the cursor movement for some lines.
delopsu 8 hours ago [-]
Could you please share the brush that you used?
Some characters squize/expand line because of the font. E.g. emojis.
Thank you giving it a try and for the feedback!
andrewrn 7 hours ago [-]
Really fun. Perfect HN post.
delopsu 7 hours ago [-]
Thank you!
atum47 13 hours ago [-]
It could work on mobile if you work a little bit on it. Right now touch is dragging the screen
delopsu 13 hours ago [-]
Oh, yes, forgot about it. On tablet it could be pretty convenient to use, if it works. Thank you!
firasan 12 hours ago [-]
On my iPad, the vertical movements seem to trigger the page scroll
delopsu 12 hours ago [-]
I've pushed a simple fix.
It allows to draw on touch devices (with interesting effects with multi-touch). But one can stuck at the center of the canvas. If it happens — tap the header of the browser to scroll back to top.
Could you please try it again?
Thinking about more elegant solution.
firasan 11 hours ago [-]
Much better now. Thanks for fixing it!
delopsu 11 hours ago [-]
Thank you!
delopsu 12 hours ago [-]
Thank you, working on it at the moment.
doi9t 8 hours ago [-]
It's always nice to see new tools editing ASCII; especially when working with markdown documentation.
For those who like those types of tools, but for diagrams, there's asciiflow.com.
Good job!
delopsu 8 hours ago [-]
Yes! Thank you for sharing it.
And it feels like ASCII art is going through a renaissance. Maybe I'm biased and watched it a lot recently.
Let me also share a few cool ASCII tools I came across while working on this one:
Nice one, thanks for sharing! Love these simple tools that LLMs can help us ship them in no time.
delopsu 7 hours ago [-]
Yes, exactly! There might so many unexplored and/or abandoned ideas.
Thank you for checking it out!
13 hours ago [-]
DamonHD 17 hours ago [-]
Would much prefer it to start with just printable ASCII characters in the brush (32--126) from which the output would work in more places and would be in better alignment with the name.
Having said that, yes, fun and interesting, thank you...
delopsu 16 hours ago [-]
Thank you for trying it and for the feedback! Glad you liked it!
> start with just printable ASCII characters in the brush
Yes. I started like this. But then set these fancy characters by default to show the capabilities, because those who are familiar with the concept know the possibilities, but those who don't know could think that it's limited and not notice wide limits.
matt3210 11 hours ago [-]
> So instead I decided to ask it make a drawing board
Very nice. Congrats to the coding agent which made this. Needs an undo button though!
delopsu 11 hours ago [-]
Passed it. Here is the reponse:
> Love to hear that — thank you for sharing!
Not sure about Undo — part of me wants to keep it hardcore.
Like with real ink.
delopsu 14 hours ago [-]
It's a shame that I haven't read text above after posting (only in Edit mode).
I used asterisk after "difficult task" and in the footer — all between became italic. And also brush was cleaned out.
jbentley1 13 hours ago [-]
I'm going to use this for all of my Slack replies
delopsu 13 hours ago [-]
Aha, thank you!
janwillemb 11 hours ago [-]
Doesn't seem to work on Firefox mobile. On each stroke it only renders one "point".
delopsu 11 hours ago [-]
Hm. What OS do you use? It works fine (for me) in Firefox on iOS. Haven't tested on Android.
01HNNWZ0MV43FF 10 hours ago [-]
For me, Firefox on Android, I get this:
One stroke draws one spot at the starting point. Any number of further strokes draw nothing. When I tap outside the canvas I can draw one more point
delopsu 10 hours ago [-]
Could you please try it now? Pushed a fix, but have no Android to test it.
janwillemb 3 hours ago [-]
Still only one point
14 hours ago [-]
teddyh 12 hours ago [-]
emacs M-x artist-mode
delopsu 11 hours ago [-]
TIL :)
arkensaw 12 hours ago [-]
This is such a great idea, well done. Congrats!
delopsu 12 hours ago [-]
Thank you!
Grayson2025 9 hours ago [-]
very interesting, good job!
delopsu 9 hours ago [-]
Thank you!
lesser-shadow 9 hours ago [-]
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Rendered at 08:25:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
Some characters squize/expand line because of the font. E.g. emojis.
Thank you giving it a try and for the feedback!
It allows to draw on touch devices (with interesting effects with multi-touch). But one can stuck at the center of the canvas. If it happens — tap the header of the browser to scroll back to top.
Could you please try it again?
Thinking about more elegant solution.
For those who like those types of tools, but for diagrams, there's asciiflow.com.
Good job!
And it feels like ASCII art is going through a renaissance. Maybe I'm biased and watched it a lot recently.
Let me also share a few cool ASCII tools I came across while working on this one:
- animation studio: https://ascii-motion.app/
- image to ASCII converter: https://www.tooooools.app/effects/ascii
Thank you for checking it out!
Having said that, yes, fun and interesting, thank you...
> start with just printable ASCII characters in the brush
Yes. I started like this. But then set these fancy characters by default to show the capabilities, because those who are familiar with the concept know the possibilities, but those who don't know could think that it's limited and not notice wide limits.
Very nice. Congrats to the coding agent which made this. Needs an undo button though!
> Love to hear that — thank you for sharing!
Not sure about Undo — part of me wants to keep it hardcore. Like with real ink.
I used asterisk after "difficult task" and in the footer — all between became italic. And also brush was cleaned out.
One stroke draws one spot at the starting point. Any number of further strokes draw nothing. When I tap outside the canvas I can draw one more point