This is cool, for binaries that provide a web interface, for admin purposes, maybe a blog, or whatever, keeping it simple with some styling to make it a little more swish, this is all I'd be looking for. I'll give it go for sure.
When all you need for the UI is a text area to input text and a button to render the markdown, I am at a loss as to what would contribute to a beautiful UI. Is the question correct?
When not using VSCode + preview, I have found https://dillinger.io/ pretty good as you can download the result in various formats.
Agreed! A useful comment would only be present to describe an edge case, a related business rule, a future change that might affect this code, virtually anything another engineer might need to be aware of, that is not the code they are looking at.
The only reason I have a mac is for work, developing iPhone applications. For home and hobby development I run Ubuntu Linux which satisfies all of my requirements and needs very little attention. I attempt to keep dependencies at a minimum which lowers ongoing maintenance and troubleshooting.