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Abayomi Ogunnusi
Abayomi Ogunnusi

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Improve your Github Profile

Hello fams, this post is a response to a request made by a dev about how I beautified my GitHub landing page. For most developers, GitHub serves as a place where most devs spent a reasonable amount of their time.

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Prerequisites

πŸ”— Knowledge of markdown

🎯 First, you need a GitHub account (of course 😁), SignUp, and create a repo.

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🎯 Ensure you name it your exact GitHub profile name.
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🎯 Next, go to the readme.md and click on the pencil highlighted
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🎯 Now the fun part, you need a Github readme generator.
Click here to generate readme by rahuldkjain

The Github readme page generator looks like this πŸ‘‡πŸΌ.
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Check the languages and the tools in your development and click Generate Readme
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🎯 When done properly, you should have something like thisπŸ‘‡πŸΌ
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🎯 For the image part. Choose your desired image, use photoshop or canva to edit to taste. Then all you need to do is click from your image location and drag into the readme in edit mode.

Here is my GitHub profile after following the steps

GitHub logo drsimplegraffiti / drsimplegraffiti

Config files for my GitHub profile.

Calm Developer

Hi πŸ‘‹, I'm Abayomi.

A Software Engineer interested in Backend

Software Engineer

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Languages and Tools:

aws bash docker express javascript linux mongodb mysql nginx nodejs postgresql rabbitMQ redis typescript

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How to drag and drop in the readme

Resources

Read me generator
Reference video by
Khushboo Goel

Thanks πŸ™ŒπŸ½ for reading

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