Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻

Posted on Jul 9, 2020

How to add a README to your GitHub profile

#github #tutorial

A new feature arrived on GitHub today. You can finally add a README to your GitHub profile.

This is how it works:

Create a repo with your github username (e.g. https://github.com/natterstefan/natterstefan)
Create a README.md file inside the repo
Add content, e.g. a banner, links and an introduction text, and commit the file
git push your changes.

That's it. 🚀

I'm curious how your GitHub profile looks, share the link to your profile below.

Here is my profile:

Oldest comments (53)

Pol Monroig Company • Jul 9 '20

Note that you need to login into an account to be able to see it.

Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 • Jul 9 '20

really? didn’t know that.

Pol Monroig Company • Jul 9 '20

At least yesterday when I tried it😅

Robert • Jul 10 '20

I can see it without being logged in.

Pol Monroig Company • Jul 10 '20

Ooh, yes me too. They must have updated it. I swear🤞

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

Here is what mine looks like so far.

Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 • Jul 11 '20

I like the reference to your Digital Garden. That's what I try to achieve here on dev.to (and later on my own site) too.

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

I like the clean look of yours. I have a thread of people sharing images of theirs. You can share yours as well or check it out for more inspiration.

🤓 What's on your GitHub Profile README

Waylon Walker ・ Jul 9 ・ 1 min read

#discuss #github #watercooler

Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 • Jul 10 '20

Thanks for sharing the list with me Waylon. After looking at the comments I wanna update mine first XD. People have interesting creative ideas.

Keff • Jul 9 '20 • Edited

Cool, do you mind if I reference this from my post? I made a post asking people about their opinions on this feature.

Here is my post, if you have any opinions about the feature, please come over and let's talk about it!

Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 • Jul 9 '20

Hi Manolo, thanks it’s fine for me. Go ahead, cool!

Andy Piper • Jul 9 '20

I kept it simple -> github.com/andypiper

Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 • Jul 10 '20

I like yours!

Thomas H Jones II • Jul 9 '20

Nifty. Wonder if they're planning to make it available for orgs (after trying on my personal profile, I attempted similar for an org and it seemed like a "no juice" kind of thing).

Stefan Natter 🇦🇹👨🏻‍💻 • Jul 10 '20

Oh, too bad. Because we were thinking about this for our org too. Thanks for testing it already.

Thomas H Jones II • Jul 10 '20

I assume the will add it, because it would likely be even more useful – from a "branding" standpoint – to orgs than individuals. I mean, it's supposedly still in the rollout process – that, even now, not all users have the capability of enabling it.

I submitted a request for our org about it, however. I guess we'll see what their eventual response is.