D2 diagramming

I have tried diagramming on a couple posts but never had a good workflow because I didn’t want Mermaid.js with a massive payload, but maybe D2 is a contender!? I watched this excellent video: Beautiful diagrams in Emacs by Torstein Krause Johansen and it got me interested in reexamining an easy way to integrate diagramming that is both declarative and tangled out, my Mermaid attempt wasn’t that. Yak shaves I’ve started this blog post as a way to try it out directly in my workflow, so this is happening live and already has yak-shave vibes. So, let’s see how many yaks we shave: Oh yeah, just realized that to actually test it fully I need to update my custom build OS image to add the d2 CLI tool and getting it pushed up to my container registry and pulling it down to the laptop to test. It was a yak-shave after all since elpa.gnu.org kept failing until I realized that it was not code but the remote machine was on VPN 😭. But now I have d2 in my build environment. I struggled with trying…