Using the GitHub REST API to fetch and display gists

I wanted to add some additional content to my home page: stuff that didn’t merit a blog post but which I thought was still worth sharing. I’d already been using GitHub Gist to record code snippets and other notes, so decided to look into using the GitHub REST API to retrieve that data and display it on the page. tl;dr: if you’d rather just dig into the code, and not bother with this blog post, there’s a repo on GitHub. This post describes a demo version — available at the repo linked above — o...

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