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Given the widespread use of profile pics, are people still using Gravatar for this purpose (or potentially some alternative)? Or is using your real pic no longer a thing?

From the replies given, it seems that Medium facilitates monetization. I'm just curious to know how much that's actually worth vs. the public good.

Have you tried accessing a Medium link in Incognito mode?

Great suggestion!

USAGE gh gist <command> [flags]

CORE COMMANDS create: Create a new gist delete: Delete a gist edit: Edit one of your gists list: List your gists view: View a gist

I'm just curious to know what the revenue accessibility trade-off is ;-). Exactly how much money does an article on Medium make for a writer?

Unfortunately, reading Medium articles (even free ones) after a certain number of visits drops the registration banner and prevents you from continuing/reading without an account as a reader.

To me, this engagement model is parasitic and suggests that their valuation/monetization strategy is "eyeballs". Not sure this necessarily helps writers but it certainly helps Medium to drive sign-ups with free content.

Gists do not require an account/login for readers AFAIK.

Agreed. That's where I was hoping Obsidian would be helpful in terms of providing a way to tag/index individual gists.

I agree that there is a disconnect between Github repos and Gists. Unifying them with Github profiles would probably increase both the visibility and adoption (particularly if they were listed with your repos).

Mostly a question of simplicity. I don't want to spend a tonne of time maintaining a personal blog site if I can find a quick way to publish material quickly using gists with an editor (like Obsidian) which is tolerable ;-).

I've used Jekyll before on github.io, but am looking for an even lighter-weight solution (if possible).

I'm not sure I agree that Gists are `orphaned single public commits` as they have a number of features which encourage collaboration (commenting/stars/history/forking). My concern is that most tech articles represent a perspective at a point-in-time and that the broader community would benefit from a living document. YMMV ;-)