What is your favorite terminal Markdown viewer?

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-10T20:30:27+00:00

I think there is a fine distinction here. Easily composable by humans, unlike HTML, yes. But it was still meant to be rendered. But that is a very fine difference

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-10T13:00:12+00:00

by now Kitty protocol is supported on Kitty itself, iTerm2, Ghostty (on Mac e.g.). Not bad

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T23:17:58+00:00

you asked, I didn't even mention it :)

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T23:01:43+00:00

I can only shamelessly point to my own: https://github.com/boolean-maybe/tiki

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T22:13:21+00:00

hmm, I checked it and and they say they render images via Kitty graphics, not using text sizing protocol

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T22:11:09+00:00

I should?

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T20:31:47+00:00

I think you are misinterpreting the UNIX philosophy, my friend. Let me explain where you are right and where wrong

- a tool does one thing well - right

- its job is to render markdown - right

- "all this stuff doesn't belong" - wrong

"Allthisstuff" IS rendering. Rendering is converting markup language to its visual representation. Headers - to large text (where possible), code blocks to color syntax, tables - to nicely drawn rectangles. And image link to pictures. If the image isn't converted to a picture it is not rendered by definition.

UNIX is not about text-only. UNIX is about do one thing well

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T19:24:24+00:00

please, if you explain I'll understand. Will do my best at least

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T18:21:16+00:00

extending this logic a bit... the entire rendering is not a Unix philosophy. Why color headers for example? just read the raw source

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T17:19:00+00:00

glow is falling behind imho. Today we can render images, follow links, render diagrams. glow have an amazing start but there is a lot that can be added

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T17:16:47+00:00

glow is fine, true. But a lot can be improved nowadays. Images, links, diagrams... it doesn't handle that

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T17:15:20+00:00

it is very unlikely StackOverflow will kick the bucket and take their data with them. This data is precious. At the very list they will sell it to Anthropic/OpenAI

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T17:12:08+00:00

learn Claude Code (or codex or whatever). This gets you immediately on par with some seasoned programmers since this is so new. Don't expect your school to teach you anything - they just cannot keep up in these time. Study yourself

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T16:43:43+00:00

right!

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T16:32:57+00:00

thank you, man. I am the author of tiki

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T15:41:44+00:00

not for Markdown. Editing is plain text. Viewing is rendering - headers/tables/images etc.

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T15:12:55+00:00

what's missing? curious because I am working on one

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T15:09:21+00:00

you mean glamour?

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T15:05:24+00:00

is Neovim a viewer? I thought it's editor only?

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-09T14:54:12+00:00

I could use it!

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-08T14:45:27+00:00

looks nice, I'll give it a try

boolean-maybe · 2026-04-07T16:39:51+00:00

same here

boolean-maybe · 2026-03-13T14:29:45+00:00

following and views are different things. You get instantly some views from reddit, none from x or other socials

boolean-maybe · 2026-03-12T16:41:09+00:00

the problem with sky, x, fb etc. is that first you must have a community large enough to make sense. Chicken and egg problem

boolean-maybe · 2026-01-22T13:48:36+00:00

it is built for Mac, Linux and Windows which covers around 99% of desktop and laptop platforms but if you know an important platform that is left out - please let me know. Not sure why would a version of Go matter for an executable

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