Hi, It's true that I've spent quite a bit of time into that but it's definitely not at the expense of cultivating knowledge. In fact, this has allowed me to learn more. Most of the repo was generated programmatically initially and that allowed me to be acquianted with services like GitHub, HN and Reddit APIs. I have a few scripts, bookmarkelts, and vim macros that do things for me. All I do is copy a chunk of bookmarks into the right place and push the changes that triggers mdbook build via Travis and updates the website.
Author here. Currently, it's only on GitHub. I am planning to create a website in the future with search functionality and better categorization for everyone to go and use the resources listed there.
I just went through this transition myself. For the past year or so I had been compiling technical content on GitHub and writing long-form content (updates on my year long vacation) for family and friends on a Facebook Page.
Now a couple weeks ago I started putting all of that content into my own website and it feels great! Part technical challenge of getting my CMS set up and customized, and part a feeling that this is more "right" than putting stuff in walked gardens.
One delicious irony is that I had a blog in college and had Facebook set up to automatically pull those posts into Notes using the RSS feed. Then at some point I didn't care about that server anymore and did not preserve the blog. So to fill in my old content I actually had to source that from the tool that I have sort of judged as inferior.
So it is a real commitment to run your own site, on a decades timescale I would say. Or pay $5-10/month to WordPress.com (etc.) long-term, or trust WordPress free tier (etc.) to be around long-term.
