Building Wardley Maps for Mermaid: A Race I Didn't Know I Was Running
I spent the better part of three weekends building a complete Wardley Map diagram type for mermaid-js, the popular text-to-diagram library. It was …
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IDEA → Live Product. Everything Else Is Noise.
There is one metric that matters in software: did the idea ship as a live, running product? Not a prototype. Not a demo. Not a repository with a …
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What's Next: Regions, Cynefin, and Beyond
The Wardley Map PR is in draft, working through code review. Here’s what’s on the roadmap once the core implementation lands. Immediate …
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Deep Dive: Anatomy of a Mermaid Diagram Type
For those curious about the internals, here’s how a Mermaid diagram type comes together. This is the architecture I followed to build Wardley …
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Building the PR
Time to actually build Wardley Map support for Mermaid. Here’s the journey from “I should do this” to a working PR. Understanding …
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Why Mermaid
I could have built a standalone Wardley Map library. Or a VSCode extension. Or yet another web app. I chose to contribute to Mermaid instead. …
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The Missing Diagram
So I wanted Wardley Maps in my workflow. Native. Version-controlled. In markdown. Living alongside my code and documentation. The options were… …
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Wardley Mapping: Strategy Made Visual
I’ve been using Wardley Maps to think through strategy for Calliope AI, and I’m convinced more people should know about this tool. …
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