Undoubtedly your GitHub profile is your face of your coding life including your consistency and code experience.
It is undoubtedly meant to improve any recruiter or reader but it can also be a lacking factor because it’s not showing what it should.
It is very important for you to present your github account like a portfolio page displaying all of your achievement and here’s how you do it in simple 7 steps.
Step 1. Make your repo
It all starts with you making a repository on your github profile with the same name as your username on github.
Don’t forget to add a simple add a README file (That’s what will be presented on your profile).
Step 2. Write your Content
Open that README.md file you’ll find a basic set of content already present.
Now it’s your choice whether you want to use that format only or write on your own.
Based on your choice you add some crucial details about yourself.
- Interested domain
- Skillset
- Achievements
Step 3. Add your Graphics
Now it is very important for us to know that human beings are visual creatures with a very large part of our brain dedicated to process the visual cues we get off from our surroundings.
Select a bunch of graphics that resonate with you and your coding lifestyle.
Some important things to add are
- Your unique header [I suggest you use Canva or Figma]
- A gif that resonate with you Resource to find gifs
- A emoji or sticker that you like
Step 4. Talk about your coding life
With the steps above completed you are all set to finally come onto my favourite part which is to display your coding abilities, and other skillset that are enticing for the reader to depend on you.
Whether it’d be a recruiter or your follower.
You can add a bunch of things such as
- Your consistency
- Your achievements
- Your techstack
One important thing to note is that you can add a bit of visual charm even here as well, and yes you heard me right.
You can use a bunch of icons of the techstack to visualise all of them. Even in that you have the choice to select types of the icon.
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Skill icons are the most popular icons used. I suggest using those who visually distinguish the actions.
I use badges to differentiate.
Step 5: Adding an animation
This is not some mandatory step, it’s something that’s optional but undoubtedly It is the most visually appealing factor of the profile.
It is addition of a workflow. Now what is a workflow you ask? You can say it as a set of instructions you give to Github to make changes onto your profile.
Even I learned it while making my own repo.
You can use it to make your Github contributions a bit more engaging.
You can choose from github showing your consistency to snake eating your contributions they are all fun and they are all done with the workflow.
Here’s how you can set it up.
- Make a .github folder
- Add a workflows folder under it
- Then you create a file in it that shows the purpose with .yaml extension.
- Inside it you can add the code based on your selection of the activity
You can find all the widgets in the resource down below
One important tip i’ll give is you also add a permission command under it so that github knows it has your permission to make changes in your README file. Not knowing this wasted my time more than i thought.
Conclusion
And that’s it my friend. If you have done all that then your github profile would be looking something like this.
A display of all your information customised in your style, which should make you stand out from the rest and shows that you know how to do things in Github.
One important resource I have for you guys :
Collection of all things
Some great references
If you have already done that and shined yoru github portfolio do share the link or add the picture in the comment tag. Who knows you end up inspiring whom.
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