Tools mentioned by Joe Mccormick
Software and services Joe Mccormick has mentioned across podcast appearances.
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Chrome Extensions
Recommendedby Google
“Joe McCormick, principal software engineer at Babylist with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, demonstrates building Chrome extensions with Claude Code to improve accessibility. He creates tools like image description for Slack messages, spell checkers, and link summarizers in under 25 minutes each.”
Gemini
Recommendedby Google
“McCormick shares how Gemini's live screen sharing enables him to read any book with his three-year-old son Cole by turning pages and saying next page, with Gemini reading aloud.”
Claude Code
Recommendedby Anthropic
“Joe McCormick, principal software engineer at Babylist with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, demonstrates building Chrome extensions with Claude Code to improve accessibility. Claude Code's control-G shortcut opens prompts and plans in a text editor instead of the terminal, enabling screen reader navigation, control-F searching, and direct editing.”
Slack
by Slack
“He creates tools like image description for Slack messages, spell checkers, and link summarizers in under 25 minutes each. McCormick assigns control-shift-D for image descriptions, control-shift-S for spell checking, and control-shift-1 for link summarization in Slack.”
Windows Subsystem for Linux
by Microsoft
“Running Claude Code in Windows Subsystem for Linux blocks clipboard access, so McCormick created a paste-image slash command using PowerShell to extract screenshots from Windows clipboard and share with Claude.”