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Re: Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

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post #19

seems like vscode + preview is nearly the same? I guess my key issue is, with files getting continuously modified by coding agents, I want really good integration with git and live update features. If the file just got edited, make it easy to see the new parts etc.

I’m a neovim user so I’ve never used the vscode markdown viewer. One of the things I want to add is the git and live update features though. I think those would be a game changer

Re: Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

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Seems like I'm just part of the club here, but I've also been working on something similar recently. https://vantageapp.dev/ I find connecting understanding between humans and agents is one of the most important parts of the agentic development cycle, and markdown is a great way to handle that. Not only can you point it at an entire directory, you can point it at multiple projects, quick load a project with a keyboar…

Vantage looks great! I’ll try it out this weekend.

To do the job that swarf does, I found that the bwrap sandbox I’d been using is the perfect place to mount a folder to catch markdown junk and keep it out of the project’s actual git repo. Works great.

Re: Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

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post #14

Congrats on shipping! Been also building this slowly, mostly assisting my kids. What they built is Apple-only, since it's a native iOS/macOS app in Swift. It's been a very interesting experience for me, as even capable frontier LLMs still can't write Apple SwiftUI/AppKit properly. They constantly get the bridges wrong, and any feature prompt puts your previous architectural efforts at risk :)

You should ask them to make it work on windows or Linux once they’re done on Mac :) would be a good lesson for them

Re: Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

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post #12

Definitely appreciate this. I already have Typora which is commercial but fantastic product so I don't really need another viewer but others for sure will. Glad you used Tauri to make this. I will check it out.

I tend to use 'bat' or 'glow' though I've tried 'mdlook' and 'mdcat' as well.

I live in my terminal but for some reason any TUI markdown viewers just don’t do it for me

Re: Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

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post #24

Interesting this goes well with https://voiden.md/ - maybe we can integrate this - great work man!

Voiden looks awesome I’ll have to check it out

yep we too are markdown based but are a api tool !

Re: Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding

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Seems like I'm just part of the club here, but I've also been working on something similar recently. https://vantageapp.dev/ I find connecting understanding between humans and agents is one of the most important parts of the agentic development cycle, and markdown is a great way to handle that. Not only can you point it at an entire directory, you can point it at multiple projects, quick load a project with a keyboar…

I said just keep it in the repo like scaffolding.

Is software ever done?

Why remove the dev notes for the future agents?

https://github.com/RCSnyder/lights-out-swe

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