The reasons I see are: 1. People trust stuff on GitHub. It makes you think "a group who knows what they're doing did this" instead of "hey look another random

The reasons I see are: 1. People trust stuff on GitHub. It makes you think "a group who knows what they're doing did this" instead of "hey look another random blog written by 1 person who's probably just as new to this as I am" 2. Collaboration is great on GitHub. Anyone can submit a patch or whatever to add stuff to the lists, or update/remove stuff as time goes on. A blog post found on Google is probably years out of date.