Wednesday, October 17, 2012: Pagist — Turn a Gist Into a Web Page

Tomorrow I’m going to have a discrete maths test, and so there are few friends asking me several questions.

So I think, wouldn’t it be nice if there is a way to send them these mathematical equations (or few paragraph of text) in a way that is as easy as posting a Gist?

That’s why I created Pagist.

Basically, pagist lets you write some text documents in Markdown format, submit it to Gist, and alter the URL from https://gist.github.com to http://pagist.github.com.

Then Pagist will fetch the Gist, format the contents with Markdown, and apply Mathjax. Here’s how it looks like:

Pagist Example

The good thing is that Gists are editble, so I can just edit the Gist and when I refresh the page, I can see new content. Here’s an example of a Pagist, which is generated from this Gist.

Pagist also allows raw HTML, CSS and JavaScript. So you can make dynamic pages quickly from Pagist. See the Pagist Kitchen Sink.