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What software do you like for making #flowcharts?
I used to try to do it in Powerpoint, and I hate it so much.

📢📢 New version of my curated list of #online #modeling #editors

Highlights:

✅ 3 🐣 and 1 🪦 since the last review

✅ We start to see the integration of #AI, "AI-driven diagramming"

✅ Most are #drawing tools, not modeling ones (so no #semantics)

✅ #UML and #BPMN models are just one of the many types of diagrams offered by the tools. By far, not the most important ones. Less-structured diagrams, such as #flowcharts are more popular

Which is your web-based editor of choice? I need to go with BESSER but I won't get angry if you suggest others 😇

🔗 https://modeling-languages.com/web-based-modeling-tools-uml-er-bpmn/

@nixCraft

#LibreOffice

The #free and #private office suite is a powerful, free and private office suite the successor project to #OpenOffice used by people around the world. It's #compatible with Microsoft Office (#365) and is backed by a non-profit organization, The Document Foundation. LibreOffice includes Writer (word processing), Calc (#spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector graphics and #flowcharts), Base (#databases), and Math (formula editing).

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/

#LibreOffice

The #free and #private office suite is a powerful, free and private office suite the successor project to #OpenOffice used by millions of people around the world. It's #compatible with Microsoft Office (#365) and is backed by a non-profit organization, The Document Foundation. LibreOffice includes Writer (word processing), Calc (#spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector graphics and #flowcharts), Base (#databases), and Math (formula editing).

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice/

A very nice paper on 4 taboos of #programming (explicit control transfer [#GOTO], low-level programming [#assembly], #flowcharts, and global variables) - with a neat theoretical background in #anthropologic taboo theory.

https://www.ppig.org/files/2000-PPIG-12th-marshall.pdf

#Napkin.ai 🤖 is an #AI-powered tool 🛠️ that turns text into relevant #diagrams 📊, #flowcharts 🔀, #mindmaps 🧠, and #process visualizations 📈.

Users can #customize 🎨 the generated visuals by changing colors 🌈, adding icons 🖼️, and editing the text ✍️.

Napkin is #free 🆓 to use during the #beta period 🧪 and can be used to add engaging visuals to #presentations 🎭, clarify #complex ideas 💡, and enhance #blog/#newsletter content 📝.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91178294/napkin-is-a-great-new-ai-tool-for-making-quick-visuals

Mermaid diagram syntax is a low-key very useful skill to have as a software developer.

#mermaid #developer #softwaredevelopment #programming #diagram #mermaidJS #flowcharts #dev #technology #markdown

If you know an engineer, are an engineer or even worse, are MARRIED to an engineer, you should watch this comedian. To quote Stefon, this comedian has EVERYTHING. #Powerpoint, #flowcharts, #statistics, #BadMath, #GeeksVsNerds, #VennDiagrams, #MarriageAdvice, you name it. (Sorry about the ads.) https://youtu.be/kwz-Md6OoyA

A Simple Guide to Exception Handling in Java #java #exception #flowcharts
https://www.techbeamers.com/exception-handling-in-java/

#SoftwareArchitecture OH:

> If I see someone presenting diagrams with only the nodes labelled,
> I don't want anything to do with that person!
>
> The interesting, hard problems are in the integration,
> so it's the _arrows_ that should be labelled.

#FlowCharts #DataViz #SoftwareArchitect #ProgrammerHumor

one more week to see the excellent exhibition “The Roots of Our Hands Deep as Revolt - Entangled Colonialities of the Green” by Nyabinghi Lab at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin:

https://kunstraumkreuzberg.de/programm/the-roots-of-our-hands-deep/

i was especially taken by the expansive and intricate maps/networks by Moses März laying out connections and tensions between German colonialism, exoticism especially among expressionists, life-reform movement, and decolonial resistance.

#flowcharts #decolonization #restitution #ecology

$moses märz Map 1: Expressionist Exoticism and Colonial Life-Reform 2023 This map traces the lifelines of representatives of the German life-reform movement (grey), and the exoticist strand among three prominent German expressionists (green). Both move-ments tried to distance themselves from German bourgeois society by turning towards idealized visions of 'nature' or 'foreign cultures which threy construed as pure and primor-dial. The notions of 'Relationale Okologie' (relational ecology) and 'Asthetik des Diversen' (aesthetics of diversity) on the left side of the map point towards a counter-project to the 'kolonialen Bruch' (colonial fracture), on the right side of the map. This conceptual break categorically divorced the human from the non-human realm and introduced a series of hierarchical oppositions on both sides. Although the grey and green lines set out to bridge some of these divisions, they remain locked inside a colonial imagination. Drawn with a red crayon, the map cites a series of exemplary decolonial actors in the arts, literature and politics, who are driven by a sensitivity for the radical diversity of the living and committed to fight for its protection. Map 3 takes up the concept of a relational ecology in greater detail. Maps 1 and 2 have been produced in the context of the exhibition "Expressionismus hier und jetzt! Die Sammlung Horn zu Gast in Dortmund" at the Dortmunder U (October 28, 2023 - February 14, 2024).$

moses märz
Map 3: Black, Red and Green
2023

This map traces the lines of argument in Malcom Ferdinand's book Une écologie décoloniale, which was published in 2019 (Decolonial Ecology, 2021), and which questions the division between antiracist and environmental movements from a Caribbean perspective. Malcom Ferdinand works against this break by indicating that the division between an exploitable 'nature' and an exclusionary vision of the human is at the basis of a global economic system which he refers to as Plantationocene. According to Ferdinand, environmentalism has traditionally focussed on protecting nature or saving specific animals while ignoring issues of social justice emerging from the genocide of Indigenous people, slavery and colonialism. In red crayon the map shows the forces resisting the traditions of rampant capitalism and such a one-sided ecological movement as performing what he calls a cosmopolitics of relation. From Ferdinand's perspective, the restitution of stolen art works - a struggle that Map 4 depicts in greater detail - is one of the key areas where bridges across the modern human/nature divide can be built.
The kind of relational politics Ferdinand is calling for requires a radical shift from a modernist worldview considering the works of art in question as inanimate private property towards a respect for animist epistemologies that consider them to be endowed with a 'living force' that troubles the subject/object divide.

WF2M сеть. Формализм и математика workflow

Кому нужны книжки без картинок … или хоть стишков, не понимаю! – думала Алиса Кому нужны регламенты бизнес-процессов без схемок … или хоть скриптов, не понимаю! –осенило бизнес-аналитика Алису Алгоритмы бизнес-процессов можно формализовать (построить модель процесса) по-разному: подробным текстовым регламентом (см. заставку), графически (схемами, диаграммами) в разнообразных нотациях, математически (булевой алгеброй), специальным скриптовым языком, программно. При этом важно не только обеспечить абсолютную (или требуемого уровня) однозначность и адекватность полученной модели моделируемому процессу (текстовый регламент если и воссоздаст такую абстракцию, то с трудом), но и его понятность другими заинтересованным в нем лицам. Существует широкий спектр workflow нотаций (стандартов): от классических ГОСТ 19.701-90 (ИСО 5807-85, flowchart), IDEF3, UML2-AD и XML-сериализованных BPMN\YAWL\XPDL\EPML до специфических, например, Дракон . Ведутся споры «насколько хороша» та или иная нотация: насколько интуитивно понятно передает она в графическом представлении модели (в картинке) суть процесса (упрощенная нотация, понятная рядовому бизнес-пользователю), но не встречал обсуждения их математических представлений и вообще workflow-модели с простой и прозрачной математической абстракцией: математической интерпретацией объектов модели и механики процесса (метамодели алгоритма). Ниже предложен математический формализм workflow-сетей: Модель WF2M (From workflow to mathematic), WF2M-сеть, как механизм формализации алгоритмов бизнес-процессов в части потока работ (workflow) путем задания аналитическими выражениями функций переходов между дискретными состояниями, маркировки состояний моделируемого объекта. Механизм (механика интерпретации алгоритма бизнес-процесса) заимствует от сетей Петри терминологию (маркировка сети, активация перехода, реализация перехода и т.п.) и частично концептуализм и классификацию. Предложенная WF2M сеть имеет иной механизм формализации (абстракцию) по сравнению с WF-nets .

https://habr.com/ru/articles/781124/

#bpmn #epc #flowcharts #workflow #graphviz

oh....
and it does not just handle #UML

it also deals with #BPMN, #C4, #mindmap, #flowcharts etc etc

Flow-Charts können dabei helfen, den Erfolg deiner Social Media Marketing Strategie zu steigern, indem sie klare und effiziente Prozesse aufzeigen. 💡 #SocialMediaMarketing #FlowCharts https://socialmediaexplorer.com/social-media-marketing/turbo-charge-your-social-media-marketing-with-flow-charts/

A pic of the addon in action in each of the 4 available editors:
- Geometry Nodes
- Shader Nodes
- Compositor Nodes
- and, of course, Mindmapper Nodes!

#b3d #blender #blender3d #addon #flowcharts #mindmaps #brainstorm

Another free #blender #addon update:

Mindmapper allows you to create #mindmaps or #flowcharts using text and images.

New Features:
- Now available in Shader, Geometry and Compositor Nodes(Add > Extra > Mindmap)
- Hi-Res Image support (up to 2K, thanks to 3dn-bip!)
- Choose an Images folder to autopopulate the node Image selector
- New Note node - Text only!
- Dynamically change number of node inputs/ouputs
- Redesigned node control panel

Download it from Github: https://github.com/SpectralVectors/MindMapper

#b3d