The Concept of a Meta-Font https://www.zigzaganimal.be/elements/the-concept-of-metafont.pdf (beautiful example of making the most of a medium when communicating)
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I'm writing ASCII diagrams for docs. It's not terribly pretty, but it's so easy to contribute to.
I've seen so many beautiful architecture diagrams go stale because no-one wants to find the file and the GUI tool to keep it updated.
@bugaevc@mastodon.technology Beautiful! I've wanted a card based terminal for a long time: it feels like a great design for commands that sometimes write a ton of output.
brag: the Beautiful Racket AST Generator https://docs.racket-lang.org/brag/ (not only generating a parser from BNF, but syntax values with positions!)