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Re:An Amazon programmer’s perspective (2015) by nordsieck on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:50PM (#23264081)
> GitHub and Gists seems to alot of people's go to place for writing these days. I'll take it over Medium but still seems a bit odd.

IMO it's the lowest effort blogging platform (for people who already know how to use git). You don't have to go to a webpage - just write some text in the editor of your choice.

You don't even need to use something like Hugo since Github will render markdown files properly.

Re:An Amazon programmer’s perspective (2015) by azuriten on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:10PM (#23264385)
If you're just writing some throwaway content then sure, I guess the low effort is worth it. But if you want to write more than a single post it's probably better to spin up either your own blog or somewhere else.