Ask HN: What is your favorite website for posting code snippets?

[blairanderson]

Its pretty common that I want to save/share a tiny generic chunk of code to be re-used later.

Its typically too small/useless to be packaged, and seems to be about method signatures while switching around languages:

- parsing data

- jekyll helpers

- ruby/js/bash/etc. syntax for reading/writing/appending/etc.

just small junk that I'd like to reference very quickly and help others reference quickly if need be.

I have written and answered my own Stackoverflow question before but it feels stupid so I won't do that anymore. github gists don't often come up in google results and not easily categorized and such.

[mobitar]

I use Standard Notes [1] for this. Code editor + sharing lets me do this pretty seamlessly. Actually code snippets is part of the reason I developed this app.

[1] https://standardnotes.org.

[Axsuul]

gist.github.com

It also integrates well with Sublime Text 3 via a package

[melezhik]

Hi, probably a bit off topic but - https://sparrowhub.org - repository of (reusable) scripts.

[wheresvic1]

You can very easily get a free blog and just start blogging! https://wordpress.com/

[addcn]

Related question: what are people looking for in these tools? Anything feel like it's missing?

[blairanderson → addcn]

Stack overflow is pretty great except people go there when they have a problem and it is majority beginner with minority advanced.

I'd like to see a place that promotes sharing sharing code snippets and curating it.

Almost like https://bootsnipp.com/ but entirely generic for code of different languages

[addcn → blairanderson]

Yes that's interesting. One thing that's always dogged me is that you can't really encapsulate snippets the same you can code.

For instance - it's easy to find a snippet for Quick sort, but if I want to add a user system to an app (something just as standard), that's like 30 snippets and across 4 files and it might not work.

[salmanpathan30]

gist.github.com