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Brian Douglas on July 23, 2020

GitHub is a development platform inspired by the way you work. From open source to business, you can host and review code, manage projects, and bui...

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Peter Kim Frank • Jul 23 '20

Thanks so much GitHub team for joining us as a CodeLand Patron sponsor. Really excited that you all have chosen to support us, and very excited that the community here will be able to engage with your team.

Excited to see some awesome profile READMEs from community members here 😎

Michael Tharrington • Jul 23 '20

This is seriously awesome!

Lisa Sy (she/her) • Jul 23 '20

Amazing!

Abhishek Naidu • Jul 23 '20

Thanks so much GitHub Team and Brian for organizing this,
Here is mine : README

I am also the maintainer of awesome-github-profile-readme 😊

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Hello Abhishek, thanks for sharing.

Abhishek Naidu • Jul 23 '20

It's my pleasure sir, 😊

David Pellegrini • Jul 23 '20

Some of these are so cool! I'll have to dig through them for some inspiration

Abhishek Naidu • Jul 23 '20

Yea Sure, Infact we have our website also,
Link - Website

Joe Doss • Jul 23 '20

I am loving the profile READMEs! I made an old coworker a collaborator on mine as a joke and he made me one... Needless to say, I had to make some changes.

github.com/jdoss

Thabi • Jul 23 '20

Hi there, here is mine : github.com/lalawuhan/lalawuhan

Haley • Jul 23 '20

I absolutely love your readme <3

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Nice! I love the images Thabi. How did you go about creating the gif animation?

Thabi • Jul 23 '20

Thank you, I just converted short animations from mp4 to gif online. I recommend Canva animated images canva.com/join/caribbean-kasbah-ge... - search animated and there will be a few options to create a short video.

Roz Barnes • Jul 23 '20

I'd love to see it! I already have a Canva account and this link is only for new Canva members. Can you please send it to me?! Thx! My GitHub is RozBarnes (and twitter)

Thabi • Jul 24 '20

You can do it with any canva account. Just search animations on canva

Lee Reilly • Jul 23 '20 • Edited

If anyone's looking for inspiration here are ten really nice profile READMEs seen in the wild 😍

10 Standout GitHub Profile READMEs

Lee Reilly ・ Jul 23 ・ 6 min read

#codeland #github #actions #readme

Delphine Foo-Matkin • Jul 23 '20

Thank you Github for sponsoring this awesome conference! Loving it!

Just learned how to create a profile README and looking forward to adding bells and whistles: github.com/delphinefoo/delphinefoo

Marlyn Suarez • Jul 23 '20

Hi! I'm really excited to be a part of this virtual conference~ As a newbie who greatly needed to be surrounded by other coders, I'm thank you guys helped sponsored it. ^^ I think this is my readme? Still haven't entirely used GitHub....><

github.com/Marlyn-suarez

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

There is a link in the post that shows how to create a Profile README.

TLDR; Creating a repo with your handle as the name (Marlyn-suarez) will unlock the README.

Also if you want to learn more about GItHub, checkout lab.github.com/githubtraining/intr...

Marlyn Suarez • Jul 23 '20

Thank youuuuu!~ ^_^

Marlyn Suarez • Jul 23 '20

Got it! github.com/Marlyn-suarez/marlyn-su... This is really cool!! Ahhh, can't wait to continue using this website~ 😄

Brian Douglas • Jul 24 '20

Hello everyone, if you submitted 12:01 pm PST that included a link to your profile README, please let us know your shipping info using this form. Thanks so much for everyone who shared and hung out here in this thread during the event.

If you would like to learn more about GitHub, check out our new docs page and our learning lab.

Sticker info submission form

Brian Douglas • Jul 24 '20

Also congrats to the following READMEs, we have sent you an email letting you know that you now have access to Codespaces.

These profiles stood out and were selected.

If you would like early access to Codespaces, please sign up for the waitlist using this link.

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Love the DEV integration!

Juan F Gonzalez • Jul 23 '20

Ohhh Dammn! That octocat creator and Readme emojis are reaaaaally dope! My profile now needs some extra jazzz

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

If you are into Jazz, check out github.com/natemoo-re. They were able to embed their "now playing on Spotify" into their README.

Juan F Gonzalez • Jul 23 '20

Holly molly canolly! Spotify + GitHub? that's reaaaal classy stuff

Carike Blignaut-Staden • Jul 23 '20 • Edited

@github I love these customisations!

I have created #myoctocat (see the tweet) and also updated my README.md file with lots of emojis. Check it out on my GitHub profile

Brooke • Jul 23 '20

Here's mine... nothing special! I actually just created it and I'm going to work on it this weekend
github.com/BrookesCodeStuff/Brooke...

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Awesome, checkout Waylon's post. It includes a few examples in the comments, just in case you would like some inspiration.

dev.to/waylonwalker/what-s-on-your...

Brooke • Jul 23 '20

Wow, that is an awesome profile. Definitely going to take some inspiration from it. Thank you!

Dominic Duffin • Jul 23 '20

Thank you for geting me to finally do this profile readme thing - I'm afraid its a bit basic today because I've got a problem with my main computer and am struggling a bit but here it is: github.com/dominicduffin1/dominicd...

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Nice Dominic, what is your favorite thing about Gatsby?

Dominic Duffin • Jul 23 '20

I haven't really explored that much of it yet, but the official tutorials are excellent and really explain everything well so a beginner can jump straight in. So for now, that!

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Excellent I am using it for my Twitch Overlay, for now, if powers static content, but it will power my chatbot soon. I love how easy it is to get a React App up and running. They also make it easy to make contributions to it.

gatsbyjs.org/contributing/how-to-c...

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Dian Fay • Jul 23 '20

hey Brian, how do you feel about GitHub's ongoing relationship with ICE?

AMANKANOJIYA • Sep 23 '21

Hi! I'm really excited to be a part of this virtual conference
I am a Student and Just Started my Journey to this Amazing World of Tech and Code, and I will Love to Connect to all our Coding family members

Here's mine - github.com/AMANKANOJIYA

Thank you GitHub for sponsoring this amazing conference!

Rachel Novick • Jul 23 '20

Wow, I didn't realize that a personal README was a thing! Just made one and I can't wait to make it even better! Also, I now love my custom Octocat! I tried to make it look like me!

github.com/rnovick13/rachelnovick

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20 • Edited

No worries, It was launch 2 weeks ago and users are just now figuring out how to leverage it to share their developing journeys.

Check out this post for more examples.

10 Standout GitHub Profile READMEs

Lee Reilly ・ Jul 23 ・ 6 min read

#codeland #github #actions #readme

Rachel Novick • Jul 23 '20

Wow, two weeks ago! People have already made such awesome personal READMEs! Thanks for the resource. I'm excited to make mine even more interesting and compelling!

Emma • Jul 23 '20

Here's mine: github.com/HorrorOfPartyBeach

It's pretty basic right now because I didn't even know this could be done but I'm really excited to learn more and make it look cool :)

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Looks good Emma. What feature are you looking forward to in Vue3?

Emma • Jul 23 '20

Thanks! I haven't had a chance to look in depth at Vue3 yet but the Composition api sounds really interesting and I heard it allows for some similar functionality to React Hooks. I'm also curious to see how Vuex and vue-router will evolve.

Farhia Muse • Jul 23 '20

Thank you GitHub for sponsoring this amazing conference! 🥳

Here is my profile README on GitHub

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Amazing. What have you learned in Vue so far?

Farhia Muse • Jul 24 '20

So far, I've learned resusable vue components, state management, routing and nuxt.js :)

Tonomoshia • Jul 23 '20

Made my readme because I love stickers! github.com/tonomoshia

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Saw you were a MySpace whiz on your website. I think you will appreciate my Myspace page on GitHub dev.to/bdougieyo/making-myspace-in...

Tonomoshia • Jul 23 '20

Yep. Pretty cool!

Abhishek Sharma • Jul 23 '20

github.com/alephthoughts

Jenny Mikac • Jul 23 '20

Here is my README. It was fun adding my own little profile section. Think I'm going to have go make my own Octocat to add to it now!

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Speaking of Neopets, check out my coworker's pet on their page github.com/jessrudder

Omar • Jul 23 '20 • Edited

github.com/OmarElKhatibCS
this is mine , the script is not fully by me .
I edit it to fit my needs (Don't reinvent the wheel :p , but I have an addition -> understand how the wheel work :D )

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Nice job. Open Source FTW!

Maren Lilleberre • Jul 24 '20

The README stuff is awesome! I want to do more with this when I get the time to do so - I'll bet there's so many possibilities I can't see yet!! This is how far I got today though: github.com/Zohla

Wilson Lai • Jul 23 '20

Cool. Today I learn about profile README! Here's mine ->
github.com/wilsoncode

Suryansh Singh • Jul 23 '20

It was a great experience creating a profile README. Thank you Github and CodeLand for this opportunity. Looking forward to learning from comments.

Profile: github.com/singhsuryansh12
Readme:github.com/singhsuryansh12/singhsu...

Kira Hartlage • Jul 23 '20

This is really cool, here's my profile so far github.com/kirakirakira

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

"currently working on making your appliance give you a cold glass of water"

Tell me more..... Are you making sentient refrigerators?

Kira Hartlage • Jul 23 '20

Haha, they've always been sentient, you just have to ask nicely ;)

creaturenex • Jul 24 '20

Hello everyone, just complete my README on my profile. Thank you Github for everything! Hopefully I'll get my first developer stickers ever!
@creaturenex README

PS Thanks for your work Brian got to watch your segment!

Cody • Jul 23 '20

was having the ability to create and post my custom octocat on a public readme really the push that will get me to start learning and using Git? YOU BET!

github.com/codyrothery/codyrothery...

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Be sure to check out lab.github.com

Amy Hudspith • Jul 24 '20

I've loved making my profile readme! Have loads more ideas, but as I've been working full time while Codeland has been happening I've not been able to execute all other them ... yet. Here's the link for what I've got so far github.com/aHudspith

Hanny Kishawi • Jul 23 '20

Newbie here! really psyched about this conference so far and looking forward to ways to grow as a developer :)
My Octocat readme: github.com/hkishawi/github_readme

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Awesome, consider checking out this thread if you are looking for mentor friends twitter.com/JeromeHardaway/status/...

Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻 • Jul 23 '20

Here is my readme. I tried to add my tech stack and make attractive yet clean.
github.com/muchirijane/muchirijane

Ileriayo Adebiyi • Jul 23 '20

Hey Brian, check this out github.com/ileriayo/ileriayo

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Wow, I love the use of the animated gif. I was fooled and it was actually window.onLoad or similar.

github.com/Ileriayo

Ileriayo Adebiyi • Jul 24 '20

😄

Taryn King • Jul 23 '20

Hello there. I'm excited to be joining in on this conference, it's my first! I'm looking forward to the experience and grateful for the companies that sponsored.
github.com/TK1ng

Terence M. Stone • Jul 23 '20

I’m happy to be a code land attendee again this year.
github.com/Tmstone

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Have you tried the README feature yet? aboutmonica.com/blog/how-to-create...

Terence M. Stone • Jul 23 '20

Just added a simple README. I will update.

Kelsey Huse • Jul 23 '20

Here's my README!

Kyla Gregory • Jul 23 '20

I think this means I need to finally set up my profile README. Lol

Jonathan Yeong • Jul 23 '20

Love the new Github Readme feature. Here's mine: github.com/jonathanyeong.

I'm not that creative, so I just tweaked the original Readme suggestion.

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

It's a start! Awesome photos on insta!

Jonathan Yeong • Jul 23 '20

Thankyou!

Pushpendra Singh • Jul 23 '20 • Edited

Hey,

github.com/dreamer01

I am updating it for sure. 😄

Petr Janik • Jul 23 '20

Had a LOT of fun with the Octocat! Here's the repo: github.com/petr7555.

Kayley • Jul 23 '20

Writing about yourself is forever hard. This was very fun though!

github.com/krl87/krl87

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20 • Edited

Remember, an animated gif is like a million words. So just add three gifs, and you should be good.

Kayley • Jul 23 '20

I think I have the best/most important gif. But I definitely agree 😂

Joseph Dubon • Jul 23 '20

Hello everyone!
My name is Joe, born in Guatemala City, but grew up in Reno, Nevada.
I would love to make some new code friends!

github.com/josephdubon/josephdubon

Please feel free to connect with me! Thank you :-)
linkedin.com/in/joseph-dubon/
instagram.com/dutronamous/

Eduardo Parra • Jul 23 '20

Just learned about the profile READMEs! Excited to continue to build mine out here github.com/helloeduardo/helloeduardo

Jayendran Arumugam • Jul 23 '20

Here is my secret GitHub profile 😉
github.com/jayendranarumugam

Prashant Singh • Jul 23 '20

Here's my README github.com/singh08prashant/singh08...
It's great to see so many awesome READMEs in this discussion.

Ami Scott (they/them) • Jul 23 '20

I made an octocat, so cute! github.com/Memitaru/Memitaru

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

I love the Octocat! I also approve the align="right". Did you see Sindre's tweet on adding CSS in the README via SVGs? twitter.com/sindresorhus/status/12...

Ami Scott (they/them) • Jul 23 '20

I didn't! Thanks for sharing. I love how creative people are getting with their profiles. I've seen so many really cool ones that are making me want to dedicate more time to mine.

AsyncBanana • Jul 24 '20

I never realized you could do this until now, but here is my tiny README: github.com/AsyncBanana

Nirbhay Singh • Jul 23 '20

Thanks github for sponsoring,here is my simple readme brian 🙂
github.com/Nirbhay007/Nirbhay007

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

The badges are beautiful and really round out your profile.

jesstivey • Jul 23 '20

Very cool! Also just learned how to create a profile README. Here's mine:
github.com/jesstivey/jesstivey

I hope to snazz it up in the future 😆

Haley • Jul 23 '20

I had no idea GitHub added this feature so I LOVE THIS ACTIVITY! Thanks for the reason to improve my profile !

Sam • Jul 23 '20

Thanks for being so awesome, Github Team!! 😍 I'm in love with the new Readme feature! Here's mine github.com/dumpofmemory for start 😊

Chris Jarvis • Jul 23 '20

github.com/ClJarvis

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

I love you to have a project example in your README. I wish there was a way to do embeds or iframes in markdown properly. Perhaps someday this dream can become a reality.

Chris Jarvis • Jul 23 '20

Thanks, I wanted to show something I made, I'll add a few more soon.
I'm also checking to see if I can get a link without the iframe.

Chris Jarvis • Jul 23 '20

I got a direct link but you have to leave the profile to hear the recording. Not what I want to do, I want people to checkout my projects.

Alex Smith • Jul 24 '20

Here is my Profile
And here is my README

Anand Natarajan • Oct 15 '21

ReadMe : github.com/anandnat

Mayank Choudhary • Sep 28 '20

my read me :
github.com/mayankchaudhary26/mayan...

Jacob Herrington (he/him) • Jul 23 '20

github.com/jacobherrington

Hemant Joshi • Jul 23 '20

Wow, really happy to see Developers participating, and this is a great event🦄.

Here is the my GitHub readme:
github.com/8bithemant/8bithemant

Thank you soo much🙂.

Allyson Camitta • Jul 23 '20

OMG my first GitHub post (,:
github.com/perfectawful/perfectawful

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Welcome to the club, Allyson! Looking forward to seeing more of your coding journey.

Hemant Joshi • Jul 23 '20

Hii, hope you all liked mine readme🙂..

Thank you.
Here is the readme👇

8bithemant / 8bithemant

Github README.md. Consists of Lot of Badges, git, png, and a lot of Love, Live Github Stats. Add this to your profile and help me with contributing to this stuff. Github Profile README.md

Hi there, I'm Hemant! 👋.

Hi 🙋‍♂️,

I'm 18 years old Self-taught Full-Stack developer from India.

- 🥀 Learning GraphQl ,NextJs &Typescript .

- 🔭 SpaceX FanBoi,

- 🛸 Into High Energy Physics and Astrophysics

- 💬 Connect? Here 👉🏼

I am Into , 🙏

Machine Learning, Web Development, SEO, Micro Services, System Design, Competetive Programming & Physics and Physics 😼

- Languages and Tools...

- Blogs 🌱

- Podcast ⚡️

Thank You-🙏🏼

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Doug Waldron • Jul 23 '20

Mine exists, but that's about all you could say about it!
github.com/dougwaldron
Ready for some inspiration from others' here...

Bob Evans • Jul 23 '20

Well that was fun github.com/bizob2828.

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Almost eery how close you resemble that Octocat. Please take a photo of today's newspaper to prove your hands are not tentacles.

Bob Evans • Jul 23 '20

Lol.

Bob Evans • Jul 23 '20

I just looked at your profile readme, nice myspace throwback

Developer3027 • Jul 23 '20

Mine is simple but I love em badges
github.com/Developer3027

Courtney • Jul 23 '20

hello all! Here's my README: github.com/clandau/clandau

ItsASine (Kayla) • Jul 23 '20

My current readme is here:

ItsASine / ItsASine

Personal README

Hi 👋, I'm ItsASine

Software Test Engie

Me

My job

💬 Ask me about: Jasmine, Protractor, and automated testing best practices
📫 How to reach me: hi@itsasine.dev
😄 Pronouns: She/Her
⚡ Fun fact: I hate pizza :o
🎮 Currently Playing: Paper Mario: Origami King and Fallout 76

Bug report	Sprint metrics	End of the day

View on GitHub

Some day I might take it seriously, but for now, I went gaudy MySpace with gifs :)

ItsASine (Kayla) • Jul 23 '20

@bdougieyo thanks for this thread, it reminded me I wanted to add pronouns and current video game playing to my readme. And reminded me about the Octocat tool :)

Joe Ling • Jul 23 '20

awesome event, github.com/josephling kept it nice and simple

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Hey Joe, nice seeing you here. Thanks for sharing your profile.

Kate Dameron • Jul 23 '20

I love the new profile README! I'm just getting started on mine but looking forward to having a lot of fun with it. github.com/Katedam

Muna Mohamed • Jul 23 '20

Loving this profile README feature ♥! Will be spending this weekend making it more fancy but, here's mine for now: github.com/mooneyd12

Shubham Shukla • Jul 23 '20

here is my readme profile!
github.com/shubhamshukla1998

Pratik Singh • Jul 23 '20

Sir/Mam I am New to Web dev I have studied the MERN stack BUT i hate REACt or any other front end framework....Is it necessary to have commad in front end to be a dev???

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Nope, I look at a lot of Sara Soueidan's work does not include a framework - sarasoueidan.com/ - and they are exceptional.

Frameworks provide tools to already solved problems. You can definitely without frameworks but there are always tradeoffs of course.

Kim Hallberg • Jul 23 '20 • Edited

Don't really know what to add too the README as of yet, so this is it for the moment, you can view the repo here.

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

I like it. I actually haven't seen a lot of Ascii art yet. Nice touch.

Adrian Skar • Jul 23 '20

Hi everyone! Tyvm for supporting dev.to Github! This is my modest README repo: github.com/AdrianSkar/AdrianSkar
Will improve, I promise, 😊

Ileriayo Adebiyi • Jul 23 '20

Hey GitHub,
Thanks for sponsoring this!

GitHub: github.com/Ileriayo/ileriayo

Joe G • Jul 23 '20

Hi there, this is my profile github.com/rogcomfox/rogcomfox

and thank you github for sponsoring this virtual conference!

Terri Fricker • Jul 23 '20 • Edited

Here is my readme. I am just getting started.

github.com/terrifricker/fricker-so...

It's not really one of the new portfolio readme's, just what I've been working on.

Shaiju T • Jul 23 '20 • Edited

Hi there, here is mine : github.com/shaijut

Namratha98 • Jul 23 '20

hey there

Thank you Github for sponsoring this awesome conference! Loving it!

Just learned how to create a profile README

link:
github.com/Namrathalb/Namrathalb

David Pellegrini • Jul 23 '20

I'm going to end up spending so much time playing around and trying to "perfect" this now! github.com/dpells

Jessica Ding • Jul 23 '20 • Edited

Just found out about profile READMEs! I made mine at github.com/jessding !

Jason Manuel • Jul 23 '20 • Edited

Hi there! I just made this: github.com/jmanuel1/jmanuel1. Hopefully I can make it more visual soon! Looking at the READMEs others have made makes me googly-eyed 👀

Harsh Singh • Jul 23 '20

Here is my readme github.com/Harshsngh07/Harshsngh07

Pratik Singh • Jul 23 '20

Sir I need to Github Actions Please Provide me a link to learn it

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

lab.github.com/githubtraining/gith...

Fernando Vinícius Batista de Souza • Jul 23 '20

Hi there,
Just created mine!
github.com/fernandovbs
It's amazing to be part of this. Thank you guys =)

Suryansh Singh • Jul 23 '20

Hey Github Team! Will the sticker pack be given to everyone who shares his/her profile link or is the process selective?

By the way, here is my Profile README link: github.com/singhsuryansh12

Shannon Crabill • Jul 23 '20

Someone on Twitter or DEV mentioning including a "what I'm working on" section to their README and felt like I was a good fit me.

github.com/scrabill

basedHokage • Jul 23 '20

Hi @bdougieyo are profile README's available for everyone? Like worldwide?

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Yes, all users with an active GitHub account.

Meg • Jul 23 '20

Hi! Thanks for sponsoring! Here's my readme: github.com/MegTheDev/megthedev/blo...

Daniel Duque • Jul 23 '20

So I finally got around to doing my personal read.md on my github profile, love the feature.

github.com/fx2000

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

That gif is beautiful.

Angel Young • Jul 23 '20 • Edited

Hello Github! Thank you for making the README profiles! I had fun making mine.:

github.com/angelyoung24

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

Followed you on Twitch. I look forward to joining your next session.

basedHokage • Jul 23 '20

This guy! Starts with Beychella

Ong Chin Hwee • Jul 23 '20

Here's mine, nothing fancy for now: github.com/hweecat/hweecat 😁
Now, how do I get a custom Octocat? 😸

Zaynaib (Ola) Giwa • Jul 24 '20

Here is a readme for a frogger game that I created a long time ago github.com/zaynaib/frogger-arcade-...

Aubrey Fletcher • Jul 23 '20

Totally love GitHub, and the fact that I can find new things to play around with

Brian Douglas • Jul 23 '20

We have a regular series with tips like these, check out the post I did earlier this year.

github.blog/2020-04-30-github-prot...

mrsturner • Jul 23 '20

Thank you! This is my first discussion and I am a total codenewbie and absolutely LOVING this codeland conference. Here is my ReadMe:
github.com/mrsturner/BeanPole/blob...

Ryan Roat • Jul 24 '20

I activated my README, but haven't built it out much yet. I did add a link to my browser based pong game if you need a few minutes of downtime: github.com/ryanroat

Yuhanas Yulianto • Jul 24 '20

Hi from Indonesia, glad to join this Codeland 👏🏼
Please checkout My Readme

JamelHammoud • Jul 24 '20

Hey there! I had a lot of fun creating my profile README.

Here's mine: github.com/JamelHammoud/JamelHammoud

ro.html • Jul 24 '20

I'm making it look better, but here it is :D thanks github!

github.com/rojhanpaydar/rojhanpaydar

Ankur Gupta • Jul 24 '20

Hello everyone, here is my profile Readme, it's nothing fancier but will be developing something there soon.
github.com/ankurg132

Suryansh Singh • Jul 24 '20

I had a query, will the sticker pack be given to everyone who commented with their readme link or is the process selective? And also, how will I be notified?