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Would this also apply to LowKey? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.07922.pdf

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 use Obsidian and want to incorporate it in with my Gist usage. Found this which might be helpful: https://github.com/defunkt/gist

P.S. My biggest peeve with Gist is the missing dark mode :(. Otherwise, I find that the ability to use Markdown and embedded images in my gist's actually covers most of my documenting/blogging use case. Obsidian will hopefully address the dark mode issue.

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 ;-)

Interesting. So how do you decide what to publish on Medium? Is it simply a distinction between `blog` content vs. technical docs, or something else?

Wrote this a while back, but figured I'd share this in case anyone finds themselves wanting something similar.

I start with a Protonmail GPG key, but the more paranoid out there may want to generate their own keys to use.

Thoughts/feedback welcome!

Infrastructure-as-code suffers from a tool ergonomics problem. I created this gist to discuss some of the challenges associated with Terraform. Comments/feedback welcome!

His ability to find the people who shared his vision (regardless of their educational backgrounds) and motivate them to do the best work of their lives. This was his superpower and the basis of his reality distortion field.

Got this from reading Isaacson's biography (which BTW showed what an asshole he could be).

Thanks for the reply. Is there any relevant documentation online which makes this clear?

Thanks for the info. I'm pretty sure I won't need SAML for my application, but the Secure Data Connector is definitely something that I will be looking into.

Can you elaborate? I'd be curious to know what limitations you've experienced that work against GAE for enterprise deployments.

Actually, I was considering using GWT over the AppEngine. It provides a lot of supported functionality (such as fast Image serving, OAuth & OpenID, BLOBStore, Memcache) that seem a bit of a pain to integrate with ROR. Those features in conjunction with the free quota limitations (for approximately 5 million page views per month) make it seem like an ideal low investment platform that can scale one demand. I'm just wondering if anyone chose ROR/Django over GAE and what their reasoning might be.

The problem with your business model is that you will not really make any money with a 6% margin. How about this? Start out with $2 a letter, then give bulk discounts based on the volume of mail sent. It seems that a lot of the comments here suggest that the API would be useful in a MASS mailling campaign. Your pricing should reflect this requirement without breaking the bank. Single letter users will in effect subsidize the mass mailers.

How do you delete an account?