Mermaid

Overall, the discovery offered a possible tool, not a replacement for reducing ocean warming.

Title, Pele Mermaid Diagrams as Themable SVG.

Source pel.run.

The project Pele turns Mermaid syntax into SVG diagrams without external dependencies.

It supports Mermaid's built-in diagram types and uses CSS variables for colors and fonts, so themes can change without rendering the diagram again.

Pele was designed for Obsidian and claimed much smaller bundles and faster rendering than Mermaid.js.

Developers could install it through NPM and insert the generated SVG into a web page.

In the comments, sentiment was largely positive, especially about Pele's speed, theming, and browser-free rendering.

No more destroyed tables and white space.

They added inline text math rendering, but the biggest one for me is native Mermaid rendering directly in the terminal.

This completely changes the workflow.

For those who don't know, Mermaid lets you generate complex flowcharts and diagrams using text syntax.

Which AI is great at writing.

Right.

Which breaks your flow completely.

Exactly.

And this is what, right, this is what we usually write in, in, in white- whiteboard and then now it will also tell you like the build specification in HighLevel.

And what I like about this, Vi- Vit, is I can copy this code and like I said, if you have Mermaid or maybe Miro, you can copy that code, send it over to, to-

Oh, this is great.

Yeah.

The post introduced RelaDraw, a text-based language for creating diagrams with explicit control over node placement.

It balances the ease of automatic layout tools like Mermaid with the flexibility of drawing tools like Draw.io, allowing users to specify relative positions without manually picking coordinates.

Realadraw is written in TypeScript, works with a command line interface to generate SVGs, and is designed to be easy for humans and AI agents to edit.

The creator aims to improve diagramming workflows by reducing manual effort and increasing expressiveness.

In the comments, the community was mostly supportive.

Users appreciated Relidraw's approach to relative positioning, comparing it favorably to tools like Picture, TickZ, and D2.

Many found it a useful alternative to Mermaid and GraphViz, especially for complex diagrams where layout control matters.

Several discussed potential future features like theme options, better edge routing, and integration with Markdown support.