Gist.io is
Writing for Hackers

There’s a scale of permanence to writing on the web. On one end, we have the tweet: brief and ephemeral. On the other end of the scale, we have longform blog writing: unlimited in length and hopefully impervious to the passage of time.

Sometimes, we want to share a bit of writing that is neither. Maybe we want to write for a specific audience, but don’t want to address the people who usually read our blogs. Maybe it’s just something that doesn’t fit into 140 characters.

Gist.io is a solution for that, inspired by Mike Bostock’s delightful bl.ocks.org

Usage

  1. Create a gist on GitHub with a single Markdown-syntax file.
  2. In the URL bar, replace
    gist.github.com/youruser/abc123… with
    gist.io/@youruser/abc123….
  3. Enjoy your beautifully-presented writing.

Happy writing!

Idan Gazit

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