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Hi, We’re GitHub and we’re excited to be at CodeLand!

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 •

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 😎

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Michael Tharrington •

This is seriously awesome!

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Lisa Sy (she/her) •

Amazing!

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Abhishek Naidu •

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

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

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Brian Douglas •

Hello Abhishek, thanks for sharing.

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Abhishek Naidu •

It's my pleasure sir, 😊

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David Pellegrini •

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

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Abhishek Naidu •

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

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Thabi •

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

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Haley •

I absolutely love your readme <3

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Brian Douglas •

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

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Thabi •

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.

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Roz Barnes •

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)

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Thabi •

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

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Joe Doss •

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

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Marlyn Suarez •

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

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Brian Douglas •

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...

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Marlyn Suarez •

Thank youuuuu!~ ^_^

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Marlyn Suarez •

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

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Delphine Foo-Matkin •

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

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Brian Douglas •

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

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Brian Douglas •

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.

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Carike Blignaut-Staden • • 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

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Brian Douglas •

Love the DEV integration!

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Juan F Gonzalez •

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

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Brian Douglas •

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

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Juan F Gonzalez •

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

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Brooke •

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

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Brian Douglas •

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...

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Brooke •

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

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Dominic Duffin •

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...

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Brian Douglas •

Nice Dominic, what is your favorite thing about Gatsby?

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Dominic Duffin •

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!

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Brian Douglas •

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 •

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

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Brian Douglas •

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.

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Chris Jarvis •

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.

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Chris Jarvis •

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.

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Emma •

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 :)

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Brian Douglas •

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

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Emma •

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.

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AMANKANOJIYA •

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!

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Rachel Novick •

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

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Brian Douglas • • 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.

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Rachel Novick •

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!

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Pushpendra Singh • • Edited

Hey,

github.com/dreamer01

I am updating it for sure. 😄

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Farhia Muse •

Thank you GitHub for sponsoring this amazing conference! 🥳

Here is my profile README on GitHub

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Brian Douglas •

Amazing. What have you learned in Vue so far?

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Farhia Muse •

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

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Tonomoshia •

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

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Brian Douglas •

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...

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Tonomoshia •

Yep. Pretty cool!

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Hanny Kishawi •

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

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Brian Douglas •

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

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Amy Hudspith •

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

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Kira Hartlage •

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

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Brian Douglas •

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

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

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Kira Hartlage •

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

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Suryansh Singh •

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...

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creaturenex •

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!

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Maren Lilleberre •

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

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Omar • • 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 )

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Brian Douglas •

Nice job. Open Source FTW!

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Wilson Lai •

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

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Cody •

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...

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Brian Douglas •

Be sure to check out lab.github.com

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Jenny Mikac •

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!

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Brian Douglas •

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

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Kayley •

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

github.com/krl87/krl87

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Brian Douglas • • Edited

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

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Kayley •

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

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Ileriayo Adebiyi •

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

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Brian Douglas •

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

github.com/Ileriayo

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Ileriayo Adebiyi •

😄

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Haley •

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

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Ami Scott (they/them) •

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

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Brian Douglas •

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...

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Ami Scott (they/them) •

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.

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Sam •

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

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Joseph Dubon •

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/

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Kyla Gregory •

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

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Terence M. Stone •

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

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Brian Douglas •

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

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Terence M. Stone •

Just added a simple README. I will update.

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Jayendran Arumugam •

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

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Jonathan Yeong •

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.

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Brian Douglas •

It's a start! Awesome photos on insta!

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Jonathan Yeong •

Thankyou!

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Petr Janik •

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

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Prashant Singh •

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

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AsyncBanana •

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

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jesstivey •

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 😆

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Nirbhay Singh •

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

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Brian Douglas •

The badges are beautiful and really round out your profile.

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Taryn King •

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

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻 •

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

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Eduardo Parra •

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

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Anand Natarajan •
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Bob Evans •

Well that was fun github.com/bizob2828.

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Brian Douglas •

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

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Bob Evans •

Lol.

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Bob Evans •

I just looked at your profile readme, nice myspace throwback

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Allyson Camitta •

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

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Brian Douglas •

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

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Aubrey Fletcher •

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

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Brian Douglas •

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...

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Hemant Joshi •

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🙂.

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Hemant Joshi •

Hii, hope you all liked mine readme🙂..

Thank you.
Here is the readme👇

GitHub logo 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! 👋.


Hemant Joshi| Twitter Linkedin Telegram Instagram  Reddit Leetcode  Codechef


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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...

html csharpjspythonreactvuechromeclouddatascienceawsnpmgcpbashvscode

- Blogs 🌱

- Podcast ⚡️


Thank You-🙏🏼






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Developer3027 •

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

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Doug Waldron •

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

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ItsASine (Kayla) •

My current readme is here:

GitHub logo 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

itsasine itsasine itsasine itsasine itsasine


Visitor Count
ItsASine's github stats


Bug report Sprint metrics End of the day



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

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ItsASine (Kayla) •

@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 :)

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Courtney •

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

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Kate Dameron •

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

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Muna Mohamed •

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

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Shubham Shukla •

here is my readme profile!
github.com/shubhamshukla1998

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Pratik Singh •

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???

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Brian Douglas •

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.

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Kim Hallberg • • 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.

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Brian Douglas •

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

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Joe Ling •

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

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Brian Douglas •

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

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Adrian Skar •

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

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Ileriayo Adebiyi •

Hey GitHub,
Thanks for sponsoring this!

GitHub: github.com/Ileriayo/ileriayo

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Joe G •

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

and thank you github for sponsoring this virtual conference!

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Terri Fricker • • 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.

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Namratha98 •

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

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Shaiju T • • Edited

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

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Jessica Ding • • Edited

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

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