Secure diagramming

It's the Monday after the weekend where I discovered Excalidraw, which looks useful for professional purposes as well.

But alas, our security overlords deemed Excalidraw.com unsafe so Thou Shall Not Pass. Someone at the IT security department must have had a good morning, leaning back and sipping his coffee. Another case of potential IP violations prevented!

They have no idea that the tool runs local and offline, no need to leak IP. But perhaps that requires too much understanding while it's easier just to block the whole domain at DNS level.

The alternative is Miro.com. It's not bad, just different, and not really tailored for sketching, but rather publishing your work. At least I find the organization of all my diagrams a bit messy.

I had something against it some years ago because scrum masters tend to use this tool for the wrong use cases: a "collaborative" presentation where attendees were invited to put stickies everywhere. So then you see 173 mouse cursors floating around, almost crashing your browser, and when the time is up there's always someone who accidentally removes all the content. Fun times.

But Miro does the job when used in a small scale, but still inferior to the simpler-yet-effective Excalidraw.


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