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Given the state of the Twitter API & new costs it seems like many developers, small companies & organizations are throwing in the towel. It seems plausible to me, that this doesn't necessarily spell the end to the good bots or apps or feature enhancements to twitter. What if twitter itself recreates some of these things or sherlocks some aspects of these things as features? It might seem cynical or spiteful, but what should throwing in the towel look like? If you had an open source repo should you delete it? Should you try to suppress access to info from your site that describes features & benefits? Or is it too late? Or maybe it just doesn't matter at this point.

I have no skin in the game (no apps, no bots, no twitter handle any more), but this all just occurred to me while reading articles about some of the apps & tools that will most likely being going away.

So there are a lot of posts here about personal knowledge databases & note taking apps ... and methodologies. I wanted a way to keep track of info & just as importantly be able to easily see & edit that data from anywhere.

I wanted it to be robust, free, web-based, able to host code examples as actual files (e.g. style.css or script.js), and host images.

Turns out this is all available with Github & Gitlab.

Step 1: Create a Private Repo Step 2: Hit the . key or use the editor URL pattern: https://github.dev/{{username}}/{{repo-name}} Step 3: Start using ... you can add sub-directories with Markdown for notes ... you can add all the file types above.

For Gitlab just click "Web IDE" from your project's homepage.

(I made this URL: https://github.dev/{{username}}/{{repo-name}} my homepage, making it super easy to access.)

This is absolutely nothing new; but the epiphany I had a week or so ago about using a repo in this way seems to have really stuck (yes, a week is a short period of time but often a note app or approach sticks for a day or 2 for me).

I'm really curious if others do something like this & what other sorts of practices they might employ while doing this.