When Logitech announced they were stopping making them, I bought 3 new Logitech Harmony remotes. I'm on my last one! I don't know what I am going to do after that one dies :-(
In the philosophy of selling shovels in a gold rush, I have built a Markdown Viewer for Mac which is optimised for AI coding with the likes of Claude.
It is simple but powerful supporting all formatting but also diagrams so you can get Claude to generate beautiful ER, or state-transition diagrams for your documentation. It also supports math notation, file links and has a cool table of contents feature
It looks like Markdown is having a bit of a heyday with it being the default mode of docs for AI coders. And it became apparent that there is no simple, but powerful Markdown viewer for the Mac, so I made one.
It supports all the usual Markdown formatting but also diagrams and equations so you can get Claude to not only write up your system docs but also supply a diagram of the database structure, logic, or AWS services.
It would be cool if you gave it a go :-) It is in the Mac app store "ViewMD"
When I read social spaces like Reddit or X, if the government has done anything contentious you get nothing more than strident left takes, or strident right takes on the topic. Neither of which is informative or helpful.
So I am setting up a site which uses AI which is specifically guided to be neutral and non-partisan, to analyse the government actions from the source documents.
It then generates:
- a summary,
- expected affects,
- benefits,
- disadvantages, and
- ranks the action against 19 "things you care about" (e.g. defence, environment, civil liberties, religious protection, etc.)
The end result is quite compelling. For example here's the page that summarises all the actions which are most, and least, beneficial to individual liberties:
We have gone to a lot of trouble to try to engineer the prompt to make it clear to Gemini that it should take a "non-partisan and unbiased" view in all the analysis. This is an attempt to get away from any person's opinion, including ours.
Obviously, whether you think it achieving that ideal is in the eye of the beholder :-) But it is certainly less biased than most mainstream media, and social network echo chambers.
A clear, simple Markdown viewer for the Mac: ViewMD
When using developer AI agents like Claude Code, often they output, and use, .md files like CLAUDE.md, README.md, etc. You largely want to just read these, and if Claude updates them, read the latest version.
Other markdown apps incorporate editing, split screens, etc. I just wanted a neatly formatted read only view. And if you want to edit them, just use something specifically designed for that like Sublime Text, my viewer will instantly load with the updated file.
Anyway, check it out: search for "ViewMD" in the Mac App Store.
The premise is that when I read social spaces like Reddit or X, if the government has done anything contentious you get nothing more than strident left takes, or strident right takes on the topic. Neither of which is informative or helpful.
So I have set up a site which uses AI which is specifically guided to be neutral and non-partisan, to analyses the government actions from the source documents. It then gives a summary, expected effect, benefits and disadvantages, and ranks the action against 19 "things people care about" (e.g. defence, environment, civil liberties, religious protection, etc.)
The end result is quite compelling. For example here's the page that summarises all the actions which are extremely beneficial or disadvantageous to individual liberties: https://sivic.life/tyca/tyca_individual_liberties/
The site is up now as far as I can tell. We were doing some updates a couple of hours ago which might have been when you tried it. Please have another go.
Actually there's a couple of work arounds for this problem as they anticipated it all along. My father was Director of Operations at Tidbinbilla deep space tracking station which ran most of the comms to Voyager 1.
I am paraphrasing what he said as a non-technical person: Voyager has both a dish receiver, and a pole antenna. The dish is the usual mechanism for comms but in an emergency such as this they would send commands to the other antenna. To do this they would turn the main tracking station dish up to max, and send a "TURN AROUND!" signal out.
But prior to that they had to alert the local electricity grid, and the local air traffic control to not have any planes flying over at the time!
I guess the Voyagers are too far away for this manoeuvre now.
I'm amazed this hasn't happened earlier. They've switched their laptops across ages ago. I have a MacBook, Samsung phone, Sony headphones, Samsung earbuds as well as several other USB-C accessories and I only need the Macbook power cord to charge any of them.
When I travel that's the only power supply I take. When I need to charge my phone, I just unplug the Macbook and plug in the Samsung phone. But if I had an iPhone I couldn't do that!
