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0 pointsaviperl2y ago0 comments

I've been working on blog powered entirely by GitHub Gists. https://gist.aviperl.me/

With zero extra effort, you get a simple blog. With configuration via settings files stored in a secret gist or on a gist itself, a rich blogging experience.

A currently hidden feature that is useful is RSS feeds for any GitHub users gists: https://gist.aviperl.me/avi-perl/rss

I'm hoping that the GitHub graphQL API might let me get list of gists with their file content, in which case, no outside build step would be needed to provide the full experience for a GitHub user.

What I mean here by "full experience" is adding a title, image, tags, etc.

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gsuuon2y ago

This is a neat idea! I had a similar idea but with github repos instead of gists - it'd be possible to use tags to just check out blogs you're interested in. I built mine as a neovim plugin rather than a standalone site though. Gists definitely make it easier for shorter blogs.

delta_p_delta_x2y ago

This is beautiful. I might start using this!

aviperlOP2y ago

If you provide me with your username and the id of a secret gist for configuration, I'll add your username to the list of users to precompile pages and use the full features.

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