Ars Technica has a useful little piece on paste services for geeks, with a special focus on GitHub’s Gist.

For years, I’ve been using several old standbys, namely the pastebin and pastie implementations, which are hosted at numerous websites. My favorite pastebin site is pastebin.ca, which adds numerous features on top of the standard pastebin.com distribution. Recently, though, irc friends have been pointing me towards github. So I finally bit the bullet and checked out github’s “Gist” pasting system. Sure enough, Gist takes pasting into the next generation.

I’m convinced. Signed up for a GitHub account a few minutes ago, and seriously thinking about signing up for a paid account to sync some of my documents and config files in my home directory…

Gobby has also been useful for collaborative editing in the past, but I don’t hear too much about it these days. It’d be nice if OO.org had that sort of functionality as well. (Or maybe it does, but I missed it in the feature list. But I don’t think so…)

What do you use for sharing code/text?

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