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Off topic, but just wanted to say I love the way this guy has repurposed a github repo to be a blog. One of the most effective integration of aesthetics and functionality of minimalism I've seen.

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In a similar vein, the developer of BYTEPATH used to use Github issues as their blog. I also thought it was clever. You even get a commenting and reaction system for free!

https://github.com/a327ex/blog/issues

Funny, I was thinking that the only disadvantage of the previous example is that you don't get any feedback from comments.

The ability to label your "posts" seems pretty powerful too. Then your blog can be navigated by your tagging system, which means it can also start to act as a personal wiki...

That's what I was thinking too. I'm pretty confident you can actually write and publish an open-source book on github.

I love how simple markdown is and how covers most of my writing use cases.

Btw github supports more than just markdown: https://github.com/github/markup#markups

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