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GitHub gists for blog articles

Each gist acts as an individual post, supporting Markdown for formatting, code snippets, and comments, without the need for a full blog. Gists are version-controlled, making edits and revisions transparent, and they are easily shareable via direct URLs. This approach keeps hosting lightweight, leverages GitHub's infrastructure, providing a low-maintenance way to maintain a minimal, code-friendly blog.

I am certainly not the first one to think of doing this (see for example

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#!/usr/bin/python3

import sys
import yaml

# Use LibYAML is available, otherwise this is going to be super slow
try:
    from yaml import CSafeLoader as SafeLoader
except ImportError:
    print("Expect slowness!")

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#!/usr/bin/python3

import sys
import yaml

# Use LibYAML is available, otherwise this is going to be super slow
try:
    from yaml import CSafeLoader as SafeLoader
except ImportError:
    print("Expect slowness!")

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#!/bin/sh

DEFER=
defer() {
    DEFER="$*; ${DEFER}"
    trap "{ $DEFER }" EXIT
}

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#!/bin/bash

set -e

CSV=/usr/share/distro-info/ubuntu.csv

if [[ $# != 1 ]]; then
  echo "Usage:   $0 <series>"
  echo "Example: $0 <jammy>"
  exit 1

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#!/bin/bash

set -eu -o pipefail

### retry script snippet
retry() {
    ((${_try:=1}>5)) && exit $? || echo sleep "$((8*_try**3))"
    _try=$((++_try)) exec "$BASH" "${BASH_SOURCE[-1]}" "$@"
}
trap 'retry "$@"' ERR

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/* https://thelounge.chat/docs/guides/custom-css */

/* Bigger custom CSS field */

textarea#user-specified-css-input {
	height: 400px;
       width: 600px;
}

/* Compact sidebar */

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#!/bin/bash

fail() { echo "$@" 1>&2; exit 1; }
cleanup() {
    rm -rf "$tmpd"
    git worktree prune
}

if [[ $1 = "-h" || $1 = "--help" ]]; then
    cat <<-EOF

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#!/bin/bash

: "${PACKAGING_BRANCH:=ubuntu/devel}"
: "${RELEASE:=UNRELEASED}"
: "${CLOGVER_DEBIAN:=0ubuntu1}"
: "${DEBFULLNAME:=$(git config user.name)}"
: "${DEBEMAIL:=$(git config user.email)}"

export DEBFULLNAME DEBEMAIL