TLDR; Just a fun little project of mine that born out of an idea to utilize Gist as a blogging platform, I hope you find it useful.
All I wanted to do was write a blog but got completely distracted on choosing a static site generator or a blogging solution. I have tried some static site generators but I personally find entering the metadata section (frontmatter) for each markdown file repetitious. I have used blogspot and wordpress a lot so I am used/into writing blog into a web page (rather than a text editor) and just publishing it without thinking about files or metadata.
So I thought it would be useful to utilize Gist as it comes with a good Markdown editor, an integrated comment section, starring (bookmarking), and revisions (commits) for metadata. I didn't complete the blog but for those who actually want to write one, try out writing them via Gist.
NOTE: I hope someone who's good at CSS will contribute a better starter theme, I would really appreciate it.
All I wanted to do was write a blog but got completely distracted on choosing a static site generator or a blogging solution. I have tried some static site generators but I personally find entering the metadata section (frontmatter) for each markdown file repetitious. I have used blogspot and wordpress a lot so I am used/into writing blog into a web page (rather than a text editor) and just publishing it without thinking about files or metadata.
So I thought it would be useful to utilize Gist as it comes with a good Markdown editor, an integrated comment section, starring (bookmarking), and revisions (commits) for metadata. I didn't complete the blog but for those who actually want to write one, try out writing them via Gist.
NOTE: I hope someone who's good at CSS will contribute a better starter theme, I would really appreciate it.