Was chatting with a friend today and was finally able to vocalize one of the big things that's been nibbling at my brain.

When it comes to building mobile apps, where is our equivalent of Wordpress or Shopify or Drupal? Why is it that every single app must start over from "Hello world" and build from there?

@numist @Ashedryden One of the projects I worked on in Siri had some debug commands that would dump out .dot files of data dependencies that I would open up in OG to visualize. It was EXCEPTIONALLY useful.

@numist @Ashedryden Yep! You get a little menu to pick your layout algorithm and then essentially get an entire OG document on the other side.

Here are screenshots of opening Example #1 from this page: https://graphs.grevian.org/example

@Ashedryden stuff like this I use OmniGraffle. Maybe I’ll start with a .dot file to ingest a large graph, but OG lets me drag and drop the nodes around.

Very fiddle-able and customizable.