Gawker now exists as a network that posts articles designed to get that advertising revenue in, the whole Reddit witch-hunt a while back serves a point.
If you're learning Git from a Lifehacker post, you're not going to learn much.
Massive shame, it used to be a great site for productivity tools. Kotaku too, now that's reduced to the low hanging fruit of gaming news, and don't get me started on Gizmodo.