I was thinking today we need a communal collection of diagram templates that we can reach for instead of re-making our own each time.

I shouldn’t have to re-adjust my mental model because of some stylistic/level-of-detail decisions by the author.

These diagrams would be interactive too.

Many systems are very similar in what they do. There are many times I am asking myself: “but how is this different from <well known architecture pattern>”.

Think about categories like append-only logs, search indexing, web requests, git trees, etc.

I’d love to be able to diff against two diagrams to the same problem and see how the approaches differ.