[uberman]

I don't have a Medium account and I don't like running into paywalls but monetization could potentially have very little to do with the motivation to use a publishing platform like Medium over what is essentially an orphaned single public commit.

[mel_llaguno]

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 ;-)