GitHub Profilator - Add GitHub profiles to Markdown in a snap

Bellisario — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:30:17 +0000

Intro

I just made public a Deno project on GitHub that tries to simplify the embed of (GitHub) profiles into markdown files by using just a Deno server (hosted on Deno Deploy) and a resulting SVG image of the wanted profile, like you can see for GitHub badges.

An example

This is how looks like a profile in Markdown

This is GitHub Profilator

Look how looks good! And also errors are good to see (visually) ;)
(This is just a preview, because DEV.to does not support SVG uploads...)

How the SVG is built

For the first time (I'm not a designer and I never used this tool) I used Figma and exported the resulting SVG, then I manually modified the text (transforming it from SVG to <text> tag for easily template changes) and the image (using a data URL to embed on GitHub).
For all these, I wanted to use Handlebars but because Deno Deploy doesn't allow eval function (I discovered it with a Deploy crash) I decided to build my own (simple) template parser with the same {{var_name}} syntax of Handlebars (without all the Handlebars logic template, just to use vars).

Looking for users and contributors

This project is in Alpha now and I'm looking for help developing and debugging.
If you want, you can find this project here:

https://github.com/Bellisario/profilator
https://profilator.deno.dev/

Urly - Command Line URL Unshortener

Bellisario — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 10:47:38 +0000

I hate when someone tell me to click a link for a content and... I view that it's a shorten URL.

Me - Why have you shorten this URL?
Other - Because it was too long...
Me - No, I have no problem with long URLs, it's because you want track me!

Do you think this?
Ok, now you can unshort URLs with the simple command line app Urly, built with Node.js, compiled for who can't use NPM and, obviously, opensource!

Preview

Discover, share, contribute and download at Urly repository.

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