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🚀 Texodus 3.2.1 is here — find anything, browse your folders, and play with your diagrams 🔍🌳

Quick reminder: Texodus is a free, cross-platform, open-source Markdown editor (macOS, Linux, Windows) that was born out of one of my AI model tests. This is a big jump since the last public release. Here's what's new:

🔍 Find in document — hit `Cmd/Ctrl+F` (or the new 🔎 toolbar button) and a full-width search bar drops in. It works in every layout and highlights matches in both the editor and the live preview at once — with next/previous, a match counter, and case / whole-word / regex toggles. Don't like the highlight color? Pick your own in Settings. 🎨

🌳 Workspace & folder tree (experimental) — open a folder and browse your notes from a sidebar: create, rename, delete, drag-and-drop, and reveal files in your OS file manager. It even remembers your last workspace between launches.
⚠️ Heads up: the folder tree and everything around it is experimental for now — expect a few rough edges, and be gentle with important folders.

📊 Interactive Mermaid diagrams — zoom, pan, and copy any diagram as SVG or PNG right in the preview (and they still render into your HTML and PDF exports).

📜 Smoother scroll sync — no more jitter when one pane follows the other in Split view. Want it extra buttery? There's an optional easing mode in Settings.

🔤 More typography control — separate editor and preview fonts (including your installed system fonts), font size, and line height.

🪟 Open With from your OS now lands in a tab when you're in tabs mode, instead of always spawning a new window.

🔒 Plus a hardened security policy under the hood, a fixed version readout in the About window, and the usual round of stability fixes.

👉 Download 3.2.1 for macOS, Linux, and Windows:
github.com/w512/Texodus/releases/tag/v3.2.1

As always — feedback, bug reports, and feature requests very welcome. 🙌

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I launched AI Vault: an awesome-style list for developers building with AI or learning AI engineering.

It includes tools and resources for:
- LLM apps
- AI agents
- coding assistants
- RAG/search
- local models
- evals/LLMOps
- machine learning foundations

I’m trying to keep the list useful, not turn it into a graveyard of random links.

GitHub: github.com/w512/AI-Vault

Stars, PRs, and tool recommendations are very welcome.

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📬 Heads up — tomorrow (Saturday) the new issue of Zero to MVP Weekly goes out.

It's the newsletter version of this channel: one AI signal, one tool, one MVP idea — five minutes, every Saturday. No hype, no 47-link dumps. Just what's actually worth your time as a builder.

Subscribe before tomorrow so it lands in your inbox 👇
weekly.blokhin.us/

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I started a newsletter. 📬

It's called Zero to MVP Weekly — the email version of what I do on this channel, filtered down to what actually matters for builders.

Every Saturday, one short email:
→ one AI signal worth understanding
→ one tool worth trying
→ one MVP idea you could actually build

No link dumps. No hype. ~5 minutes. Free.

If you'd rather build with AI than just read about it, this one's for you.

Subscribe → weekly.blokhin.us/

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The United States government has banned the use of Anthropic’s new Fable 5 model.

I think you have probably already read this news. Although formally the ban applies to the use of the model by non-U.S. citizens, they clearly understood that enforcing such requirements is impossible in practice for intangible things. So in reality, this is effectively a ban on using the model.

I think Altman and OpenAI may have had something to do with this, but that is just my speculation.

On the one hand, nothing terrible has happened — after all, we somehow managed to live without Fable 5 just a week ago. But on the other hand, this clearly demonstrates why it is always worth having several local models as a backup, because access to cloud models can be restricted at any moment.

What do you think about this? Will such restrictions become a regular practice in the future, or is this just a one-time event or mistake?

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Yesterday Anthropic unexpectedly released a new version of their most powerful model, Opus 4.8. I haven't tested it in detail yet, and I'm interested in your opinion, what do you think about it?

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📝 Texodus v1 is out — and this one is a big quality-of-life jump 🚀

Just a reminder that this is a free, cross-platform, open-source Markdown document editor that was born out of one of my AI model tests.

✨ I ripped out the plain textarea and dropped in CodeMirror 6. What you get:
1) Live markdown syntax highlighting as you type
2) Smart list continuation — Enter inside a list keeps the bullets and numbers going. Empty line? It bails you out.
3) Auto-closing brackets, quotes, and ** markers
4) Multi-cursor with Alt+Click

📜 Scroll sync between editor and preview no longer lies to you on long docs with images and diagrams — the same line stays at the top of both panes, no drift.

🐛 Also fixed: that annoying macOS bug where double-clicking a .md from Finder opened two windows. Just one now. As intended. ✅

⚡ Under the hood: ~660 lines of code-quality refactoring, a tighter Rust window-management layer, and the whole frontend is now TypeScript end-to-end.

🔗 Download v1 on the releases page (available for macOS, Linux, and Windows):
github.com/w512/Texodus/releases/tag/v1.0.1

As always — feedback, bug reports, and feature requests very welcome.

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🚀 Remember the Markdown editor that Gemma 4 wrote in my previous video comparing it with Qwen 3.6?

I've refined it to the point where I actually use it every day myself — and now I'm sharing it with everyone. Meet Texodus 📝

It's a free, cross-platform, open source Markdown document editor. Built with Tauri + Vue + Rust, runs on macOS, Windows and Linux. Almost all the code was written by Gemma 4 — I only stepped in where it was faster to fix things by hand.

For now the main focus is on viewing documents, with basic editing — but more is on the way. Download it, use it, fork it, improve it 🛠️

Details in the new video 👇
https://youtu.be/vh5LyL8Y164

#Texodus #Gemma4 #LocalLLM #OpenSource

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Who is stronger in real-world tasks right now?

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