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28th May 2026

Tool markdown-svg-renderer — View and render markdown content with live preview. Paste markdown directly or load from a raw URL or GitHub Gist, with support for standard formatting, tables, code blocks, and SVG previews with tabbed display for rendered output and source code. Toggle between split editor and full-screen viewer modes.

A slightly customized Markdown rendering tool with special treatment for fenced code SVG blocks - it both renders the image and provides a tab for switching to the code view.

You can paste in Markdown or give it a URL to a CORS-enabled Markdown file or Gist. Here's an example where it loads a Markdown file full of LLM pelican logs for Opus 4.8.

This is a beat by Simon Willison, posted on 28th May 2026.

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