bitshiter

Medium feels like it's the Experts-Exchange of article publishing, it's well indexed and comes up in search results, but every time I open a link and get begged to signup I immediately close it.

Hosting on Hugo/Netlify is kind of a good solution, but I feel like there needs to be a completely free, managed version. Setting up Hugo/Netlify is mostly simple, but it's one of those things when you don't want to deal with updating your local tech stack vs a managed service.

I feel like Substack is slightly better, although it still does lean towards "subscription" first services (but at least it's per user / patronage type model)

regarding point (2) I feel like https://gist.github.com/ fulfills that requirement.

With a gist you're able to quickly and easily upload a single file script (or multiple files).

Also once created you can clone it as a git repo and make updates and push back to it (e.g. add files etc). Also people can fork your gist just like git repos.

I like this approach rather than creating a "new repository" on github for small scripts or snippets because then your github profile doesn't get cluttered with small snippets and script repos and is reserved for actual "project" repos.

I definitely plan on checking this out. Another nice programmer's notebook I've been using for awhile is Marxico https://marxi.co/. It's integrated with Evernote, but I think you can use it standalone.

It supports Markdown, code snippets (in markdown ```), latex and sequence/flowchart diagrams.

To me it feels a little more natural to write a markdown document rather then thinking about each block of text as "cells".