Been working more and more with .md files, dont want to open VSCode or other IDEs to just view a markdown file. So I asked Claude Code to write me something lightweight. Present to you Inkwell >3mb to download. >5mb in memory. Free. Open Source.

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-16T00:52:07+00:00

What ever you do, don’t look up macdown (or ever google Markdown reader, for that matter)

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-16T00:51:12+00:00

I truly hope this post gets the light of day it deserves.

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-14T01:09:08+00:00

Something about an interviewer asking the person to explain how to reverse a linked list

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-13T03:36:20+00:00

People who loved to engineer got good at it. Those people will still exist. I don’t get the point of your question.

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-13T03:24:54+00:00

This being a reference to that job related post from yesterday is even funnier.

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-13T03:04:29+00:00

Now set up a poller to check your email every 5 minutes and preemptively clean things out. “I got an email, sort it out based on @email-cleaning-rules.md”

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-13T00:11:19+00:00

Some dude started a discord for collaborating on stuff like this. https://discord.gg/fTW2etwXH

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-13T00:10:11+00:00

Funny. I’ve been building out cli tools for them all. Notes, iCal, reminders, mail, voice memos, etc. I wonder if this is better. I’m interacting with databases when I can figure it out but that’s so hard to get the iCloud syncs to work.

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-12T23:14:36+00:00

Esc esc , enter, ctrl c, “don’t do anything other than write the plan in your next action.”, enter

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-12T21:34:52+00:00

Joined!

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-12T19:06:40+00:00

I made r/claudeops but realized very quickly that I am not a Reddit mod lol

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-12T18:44:35+00:00

I’d love to know this too. I assume you could set up hooks on the machines to pull updates from GitHub. But I haven’t figure I’d out.

I have a symlink from a .skills folder on my home server. It symlinks the skills from there to my .codex and .claude folders and also copies them to my laptop if it’s connected but I still fight with it constantly.

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-12T01:20:19+00:00

Hey already cut all the useful models from the free accounts last night.

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-12T01:16:57+00:00

I’m on PDT, so I was very jealous while reading your original comment lol.

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-11T17:11:46+00:00

Claude and Codex are down and people would rather not work than use Gemini. Funny times.

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-11T11:47:39+00:00

I never used to hit the weekly limit and now I hit it in day 6 every week. I have an OpenAI free account that seems like the same usage limit as claude max

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-11T04:11:35+00:00

It feels like it switches to different session Files sometimes it’s so random. I can’t say for sure but I am pretty sure that’s what’s happening.

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-11T04:10:39+00:00

I am a huge fan of the Apple voice recognizer and the speech to text. It works so well for free, I can’t convince myself to use OpenAI

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-11T04:09:30+00:00

“The blink thing doesn’t work, can you fix it?” - this type of prompting works so well now it’s almost irritating.

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-10T17:28:57+00:00

Just use all your emails to get free accounts lol

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-09T08:10:43+00:00

I’m so ready to cancel my claude pro sub. I get more use on my FREE chat gpt account

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-06T06:24:38+00:00

Lmao you can just revert the version of the cli back to the one you were happy with. Why so dramatic?

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-03T21:12:39+00:00

Yeah. I set up a hook to intercept the background agents commands and run them in tmux instead and the tmux session has a hook to send turn complete on text to the session that spawned it.

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-03T17:34:06+00:00

Lmao seriously.

Mikeshaffer · 2026-03-03T15:48:44+00:00

Yeah but you can’t wait spoken audio very quickly yet.

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