Creating a Coding Post on Medium

Coding posts will need to include at least the following items:

1. Links to reference material
2. Images of screenshots
3. Coding samples

Creating a link that automatically pulls in some value-added metadata is as trivial as pasting it from the browser:

Microsoft/referencesource

Inserting an image from a screenshot is as simple as placing the intended image on the clipboard and pasting. Here is a screenshot of the GitHub Gist editor:

Coding samples can be embedded by writing code, highlighting it, and pressing: Ctrl+Alt+6

Console.WriteLine(“Hello, World!”);

Not too shabby, but how about some basic formatting and syntax highlighting?

1. Navigate to the GitHub Gist editor. This reference link was created by highlighting “GitHub Gist editor”, pressing Ctrl+k, and pasting the link into the input.
2. Write some code and press: Create Public Gist, as per the screenshot above.
3. Paste Gist the link, press Enter, and voila!