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Every comment here seems to be a gist love fest. I develop fulltime and use git and github, but have never understood why or how people use gist. Can someone

Every comment here seems to be a gist love fest. I develop fulltime and use git and github, but have never understood why or how people use gist. Can someone explain how gist is valuable to them? Clicking "discover" at gist.github.com is unenlightening.

LawnGnome 14y ago
Most users (myself included) seem to use it primarily as a better pastebin than most of the pastebins on the Web. It's tied to your account (so you can manage previously posted Gists easily), it's versioned and available over git as an ad hoc repository, and the highlighting is pretty good.
- jamesbritt 14y ago
  What I find puzzling is seeing what appear to be blog posts published as gists. What's the reasoning for this? I imagine if you don't have a blog of any kind it fills in, but it seems a odd place to publish lengthy essays.
  - voltagex_ 14y ago
    I think there's a couple of sites that take markdown in a Gist and put them up as formatted posts. Add Disqus and you've got a neat little product.
chii 14y ago
its a slightly better looking http://pastie.org/ http://pastie.org/. sharing snippets of code is quite useful, especially if the team is a remote team.
Sidnicious 14y ago
I use it for snippets of code that I want to save (and, maybe, make publicly available and link to) but aren’t serious enough for a repo. Here are some examples from [my gists](https://gist.github.com/Sidnicious https://gist.github.com/Sidnicious): - https://gist.github.com/1173880 https://gist.github.com/1173880: A chunk of code to get information about running processes. - https://gist.github.com/1082933 https://gist.github.com/1082933: A little JavaScript function to decode quoted-printable encoding - https://gist.github.com/842476 https://gist.github.com/842476: A chunk of code that blocks (I wrote it for a startup daemon) until the OS’s network stack is ready. - https://gist.github.com/c980470f5ef244c4b4d3 https://gist.github.com/c980470f5ef244c4b4d3: My and a friend’s solution to the last level of Stripe’s CTF (may not be the final version) - https://gist.github.com/2586751 https://gist.github.com/2586751: A patch against a JSON library that to make it handle escapes in a spec-compliant way. …Some of them are useful as-is, others are useful as reminders of how I dealt with a particular problem in case I run into it again.
reledi 14y ago
Looking through both my secret and public gists, I've used it for - lecture notes - collection of resources - snippets of code (for myself or remote teammates) - todo lists - tutoring - and more...

LawnGnome 14y ago

Most users (myself included) seem to use it primarily as a better pastebin than most of the pastebins on the Web. It's tied to your account (so you can manage previously posted Gists easily), it's versioned and available over git as an ad hoc repository, and the highlighting is pretty good.

jamesbritt 14y ago
What I find puzzling is seeing what appear to be blog posts published as gists. What's the reasoning for this? I imagine if you don't have a blog of any kind it fills in, but it seems a odd place to publish lengthy essays.
- voltagex_ 14y ago
  I think there's a couple of sites that take markdown in a Gist and put them up as formatted posts. Add Disqus and you've got a neat little product.

chii 14y ago

its a slightly better looking http://pastie.org/ http://pastie.org/. sharing snippets of code is quite useful, especially if the team is a remote team.

Sidnicious 14y ago

I use it for snippets of code that I want to save (and, maybe, make publicly available and link to) but aren’t serious enough for a repo. Here are some examples from [my gists](https://gist.github.com/Sidnicious https://gist.github.com/Sidnicious): - https://gist.github.com/1173880 https://gist.github.com/1173880: A chunk of code to get information about running processes. - https://gist.github.com/1082933 https://gist.github.com/1082933: A little JavaScript function to decode quoted-printable encoding - https://gist.github.com/842476 https://gist.github.com/842476: A chunk of code that blocks (I wrote it for a startup daemon) until the OS’s network stack is ready. - https://gist.github.com/c980470f5ef244c4b4d3 https://gist.github.com/c980470f5ef244c4b4d3: My and a friend’s solution to the last level of Stripe’s CTF (may not be the final version) - https://gist.github.com/2586751 https://gist.github.com/2586751: A patch against a JSON library that to make it handle escapes in a spec-compliant way. …Some of them are useful as-is, others are useful as reminders of how I dealt with a particular problem in case I run into it again.

reledi 14y ago

Looking through both my secret and public gists, I've used it for - lecture notes - collection of resources - snippets of code (for myself or remote teammates) - todo lists - tutoring - and more...