I often take screenshots of my source-code, to place in a slide or tweet.

Sure, for blogs gist is a great option, especially when your readers plan to make some adjustments. But even that can be too much of an effort.

Today I learned about carbon, an awesome open source tool for creating and sharing beautiful code images!

Features

The ones I found useful:

• Drag-n-drop your code
• Theme selection, the cool kids use Solarized (Dark)
• Language-based syntax highlighting
• Cool fonts
• Line numbers
• Background color/image and blur

Read more and contribute here.