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How to have an awesome GitHub profile ?

Supritha on June 08, 2021

Get Started! Customize your Readme.md on your GitHub profile to make it look attractive by following the steps in this simple walkthroug...
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Guillaume Falourd

Great article! Thanks for sharing πŸ‘

Here is a suggestion to add to the list: github.com/Platane/snk 🟩 ⬜️

It allows you to generate a SVG file with a snake eating your contribution grid on your README profile, using Github Actions 🐍

You can check the result on my profile if you want to get an idea of how it works: github.com/GuillaumeFalourd/Guilla... πŸ™‚

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Supritha

Cool! Will add it soon :)

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enlguy

Hmm.. except doesn't seem you can actually play it, and it just makes it more difficult to determine how active you've been...

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Dan Jones

GitHub profiles are becoming the new MySpace profile.

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Adam Mikulasev

Awesome article @supritha !

It received a super positive reaction in our discord community The Fast Tracked Programmer and has been bookmarked :D.

Keep up the great work!

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Supritha

That's really great! Thank you :)

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Shashwat Verma

This is so awesome! I started using this feature lately, and I like it very much.
Also I saw some tuts on how to get the 3d commit chart on your profile.

here it is - dev.to/github/view-your-github-con...

thanks @supritha

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Supritha

Thank you :)
Wow that's really cool.

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jibijames

good Information

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Supritha

Thank you :)

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yuannBG

nice

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Jugal Kishore

Good information, I was gonna complain about no header/banner generator link then gladly I found them!

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Jayanth PSY

Can you pls share it.

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Supritha

Yes, I'm glad I found it too.

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Amin M. Boulouma
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Varghese Jose

Good article

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Supritha

Thank you :)

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Tulio Leao

Great article @supritha ! I want to share it with the Brazilian community, would you mind if I translated the article on my account (giving you full credit)?

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Supritha

Sure, go ahead!

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Tulio Leao

Well, here it is, hope it also helps some of my compatriots who don't know much of English. Thanks for allowing it!

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Falguni Sarkar

Check this Spotify now playing feature too.
Link πŸ‘‰ github.com/novatorem/novatorem

It's actually cool and if you wanna see my repo style, click here πŸ‘‰ github.com/lostgirljourney

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Anderson Osayerie

Great article, I am definitely going to try this out

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Sakar

Thank you, I was looking around for this.

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Charlène Bonnardeaux

Just awesome I spend my day to do mine! Thankkks

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RiverTwilight

Helpful!!

But I think a thousands-stars project is the best decoration. /s

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M.Awais Fayyaz

Thanks for the article. It's so cool

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Supritha

Thank you :)

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Shaylly

Wow, how amazing, now my profile is amazing

github.com/Shaylly ...

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trinib

Cool readme markdown example : github.com/trinib/trinib

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Gyan Vardhan

Just updated mine, modified few actions πŸ˜‰ and a little bit of everything

g0621

drop a star if you like it

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Dominik Gorczyca

Amazing article! I'm sure it will help anyone who's looking for a job :)

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Michael jentsch

That's really great!

Link : github.com/msoftware

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Gautam Krishna R • Edited

Thanks for sharing the blog post workflow project 😊

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Supritha

You're welcome!

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Akin C.

Hello Supritha Ravishankar,

thanks for your article!
This secret of github was new to me and I am glad that you share it in your article because I use it to improve my github account :).

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Jitendra Kumar

Thank you!

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