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🤓 What's on your GitHub Profile README

Waylon Walker on July 09, 2020

The GitHub profile feature just went live for a subset of users. Simply creating a repo named after your username, and clicking share to Profile o...

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Ari 🪐 • Jul 9 '20

Cool feature!

My Profile 🙂

Kumar Abhishek • Jul 13 '20

This is the coolest profile of the lot :)

alephalpha0 • Aug 12 '20

This definitely takes the cake for the most minimal and aesthetically pleasing profile README that I've come across so far. 👍🤤

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

That Gif is sooo cool!✨ I want one now.

Josafe Balili • Nov 28 '20 • Edited

Wow!

Mpho Mphego • Jul 9 '20

Here is mine

coderjojo • Jul 11 '20

Amazing ✨
Please add your profile to Developer Profile so that others will get inspiration to create their own. 😃

Keff • Jul 9 '20

Excellent stuff, thanks for sharing, I knew there were going to be quite creative ideas here!

Mpho Mphego • Jul 9 '20

I drew inspiration from github.com/CyrisXD and just mangled some code.

Keff • Jul 9 '20

It's nice that you give credit to him :) Both are quite cool! I might consider something similar.

Mpho Mphego • Jul 9 '20

A man should give credit where it's due.

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

That is sooo cool

Mpho Mphego • Jul 9 '20

Thanks!

Keff • Jul 9 '20 • Edited

I like this feature. I just created a basic one to test it out but will be adding more content soon. you can check it at @nombrekeff, I welcome any suggestion and advice :)

I just published a DEV.to post asking for what people think about it, and what use will they be giving it. You can add your grain of sand if you'd like, I always enjoy hearing what people have to say about these new features.

What Do You Think About "Github's new Profile README"?

Manolo Edge ・ Jul 9 ・ 1 min read

#github #features

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

I like how you have listed out things horizontally to save space, looks great!

Keff • Jul 9 '20

Cheers, I discovered it on a project of mine and liked how it looked in contrast with tables, which look a bit to busy for me.

I also like the concept of having a branded banner at the top, as in yours.

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

Agree tables can add a ton of clutter, and there isn't much benefit in keeping it in markdown as markdown tables aren't really much cleaner.

Thanks for the comment on min!

I just trimmed mine way down. You can see it live now, I will update the images later.

Keff • Jul 9 '20

It's looking great; I'll be getting some inspiration from it :)

Akshay Khale • Jul 9 '20

Just started with it, sweet and simple.

github@akshaykhale1992

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

I like the "Get in touch" section

Akshay Khale • Jul 9 '20

Thank you!!!

perpetual . education • Jul 9 '20

We've never tried to push markdown very far. Getting an image link to a video worked - but what other cools stuff can we put in there? Is there any way to embed canvas?

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

Your mission statement is wicked cool 😎.

Not sure about canvas. Based on what I have seen on others, they take a gif and embed that in the readme. Gets rid of any interactive feature, but still give the ability to do some cool motion graphics.

perpetual . education • Jul 10 '20

Awe, you're sweet! It's real. ; )

Yeah - we checked out all the examples we could find that looked "animated" - and they were gifs.

If MD just spits out HTML, then it seems like you could somehow drop some JS/Vue in there - and make it interactive... or maybe just some SVG and complex hover logic. We will for sure check it out and play around. : )

Brian Douglas • Jul 11 '20

Hey, y'all - Sharing my MySpace page (waiting on those CSS templates). github.com/bdougie/

It is also using GitHub Actions to power the Top8 in the developer.yaml. I will write a post on that soon.

Waylon Walker • Jul 30 '20

Thanks for sharing Brian. Honored to have you here in the comments. I like how you compare your profile readme to MySpace. I feel that the profile readme is the new myspace page. It gives you enough to hack on to be really fun and creative, but limits you in a lot of ways that your own website wouldn't. I also feel right now that there is a ton of sharing little snippets to get different layouts, or SSG from actions. The whole thing has kinda a MySpace feel.

Gift Egwuenu • Jul 9 '20

Here's mine @lauragift21 :)

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

Love the centering

Anurag Hazra • Jul 15 '20

Here's mine

github.com/anuraghazra

And recently I created this service to help everyone add stats to their readme 😄

Check out github-readme-stats
It has lots of features, including stats card, github extra pins, dark mode, animation etc etc

github.com/anuraghazra/github-read...

Dynamically Generated Github Stats For Your Profile ReadMe

Anurag Hazra ・ Jul 10 ・ 2 min read

#showdev #github #api #statistics

Waylon Walker • Jul 15 '20

That is sooo cool. I love the animations when I go to the url.

I was so confused how this rendered as an image in a readme, but was fully highlightable and animated..... svg is amazing.

Anurag Hazra • Jul 16 '20

Thanks! 😄 Yes github can actually render svg images in readme even with animations

Bruno Paz • Jul 10 '20 • Edited

Just finished mine.

Maybe a little too big, but I am generally happy about it. I think it describes me very well.

Maybe I can make the "What I do section" bullet points so it becomes smaller and with less text.

Will keep iterating on it and take inspiration on some great examples in the comment section.

Waylon Walker • Jul 10 '20

That is super detailed. 👍

Bruno Paz • Jul 11 '20

Have done a couple of changes. Now it´s smaller and more focused. Less of a CV in some parts.

Juan F Gonzalez • Jul 9 '20

Well here it is

I didn't do anything fancy... cuz I'm not fancy lol. I like it though. Will be updating with more things as I go along and find some inspo 😛

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20 • Edited

So many of us ended up here on an "accidental career path". I wouldn't have planned mine to end up here even just a few years ago. It's something that took me a long time to realize. Not everyone here was a 14-year-old programming genius or Comp Sci Superstar. Many of us are mid-career switchers who just like building cool things.

Juan F Gonzalez • Jul 9 '20

Hahaha I feel the "just a few years ago" too. I'm still figuring out my way between doing development and other non-techy things that I also enjoy. 😅

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Maxim Zhukov • Jul 15 '20

It looks brilliant. I like how clean and accurate you've designed it. My absolute favorite!

Waylon Walker • Jul 10 '20

Well designed and such a cool call to action!

Claudia • Jul 10 '20

Thanks Waylon! Loving yours too btw 😊 ✨

Waylon Walker • Jul 18 '20

Thanks @mangamaui !

Your profile pic is super cool, Star Wars and Photography.

Thomas H Jones II • Jul 9 '20

I went Old Skool

Still a little bummed that couldn't do it as a .plan or similar.

Waylon Walker • Jul 18 '20

I'm Curious... what is a .plan

Thomas H Jones II • Jul 18 '20

Back when most Unix systems were concurrently-multiuser and before fingerd was banned from most Unix systems as a security-risk, you could set up a few world-readable files in your world-readable home directory that the finger-daemon would read. Most of the common fingerd implementations would read your .plan and your .project files. Some even let you set up a "face" file (also usable by some mail systems). If someone fingered you, those files would be used to display additional information about you.

Further, the fingerd service would read additional elements from the GECOS field of your /etc/passwd entry:

Building and room number or contact person
Office telephone number
Home telephone number

Even to today, if you've got a personal UNIX system, you can add all of the above to your /etc/passwd file and home-directory ...just that, both due to common security settings and the fact that most UNIX systems are now single-user, nobody does any more.

Effectively, the whole GitHub profile README.md is another example of "what's old is new, again".

It probably won't be long after corporate security groups become aware of the capability that employers that try to limit what employees put on LinkedIn will be adding personal GitHub README files to their social media policies.

Swastik Baranwal • Jul 9 '20

Here is mine. I know its pretty long and it is a prototype. Any suggestions are welcome.

Swastik Baranwal • Jul 9 '20

It is much better and shortened now.

github.com/Delta456/Delta456

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

I like the shortened version, I'm going to use the Social section, and tables idea

Swastik Baranwal • Jul 9 '20

Thanks! don't forget to credit me though ;p jk

Loralighte • Jul 9 '20 • Edited

Hey I am also a V programmer, dont do a lot with V rn, nor is anything on GitHub but I do work with (and sometimes on) V

Swastik Baranwal • Jul 9 '20

I know you from the discord server!

Loralighte • Jul 9 '20

Oh cool! I left discord almost completely. I might come back to communities in the future if Discord choses to not such, but I am in the Telegram still.

Mathieu Ledru • Jul 10 '20 • Edited

my github profil @matyo91

Thanks @Mpho && @CyrisXD

I made my with my sandbox code
Then i recorded my screen to gif on Mac

Waylon Walker • Jul 10 '20

That gif is wicked cool!!

Victor de la Fouchardière • Jul 9 '20 • Edited

Here is mine

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

I like your visitor count

ItsASine (Kayla) • Jul 9 '20 • Edited

Right now, mine is just the default readme of #ItsASine haha

I'm working on an about page for my personal site, so I might just use that copy when I'm done. That way it would further reinforce that real name is ItsASine since I don't cross those two.

EDIT:

ItsASine (Kayla)

Jul 10

I added a bunch of StarTrek, Chubber, and SwearTrek gifs because I think I'm clever:

ItsASine / ItsASine

ItsASine

Me

My job

Bug report

Sprint metrics

End of the day

View on GitHub

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

Great Idea to reuse your own about page. Makes things a bit more consistent as well.

Jimmy Cook • Jul 26 '20

Here is my github

Waylon Walker • Jul 26 '20

That is a super cool gif

Jimmy Cook • Jul 26 '20

Thanks!

Suze Shardlow • Jul 9 '20

Here's mine, plus my tutorial on how to make your README :)

dev.to/suzeshardlow/new-on-github-...

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

Thanks for the cross link @suzeshardlow ! That cover image is awesome!!

Kumar Abhishek • Jul 13 '20 • Edited

Here is mine v1; thanks to so many cool profiles in this thread for the inspiration! Keeping it simple for now.

Waylon Walker • Jul 30 '20

Nice profile. Looks like you do a lot of stuff!

Kumar Abhishek • Aug 12 '20

Thanks, Waylon. I just like to keep learning new things :)

Saad • Jul 10 '20 • Edited

Here's mine: github.com/SaadAAkash
Kept it concise by focusing more on its visual - colored logos & emojis.
Throw in your suggestions!

Waylon Walker • Jul 18 '20

Build yourself up.

Writes simple, stupid, readable "okay" codes with less WTFs/min from code reviews, mostly in Kotlin, Java, Python & Node

"Okay" gives a feeling of low confidence, try these

""
"awesome"
"production-ready"
"shareable"

Ileriayo Adebiyi • Jul 19 '20 • Edited

🤓 @ileriayo

Inspiration:

punitkmryh

Waylon Walker • Jul 19 '20

Nice one @ileriayo .

If you are using this as a resume. I would suggest highlighting your top skills. The things that you most want to work with, or the things that you have the most experience with. Listing out a whole list of tech can make it seem like you don't have deep expertise in much. I do see that it shows how resourceful you are and that you are willing to learn what it takes to get the job done. I would suggest leaving 2-4 as badges and the rest can be in text format so that your top skills stand out a bit more.

Ileriayo Adebiyi • Jul 19 '20 • Edited

Thanks for the feedback on my profile, Waylon. I've made the necessary adjustments highlighting my top skills. This is indeed my resume.

Waylon Walker • Jul 19 '20 • Edited

👏 That looks much better and far more professional. I like how the badges highlight your top skills.

You have tailwind duplicated, you might want to take that out of the text.

I like the animation from your website you should re-use that to show off your animation skills. You can take this gif and pop it in the top of your readme if you want.

When I saved it I set it not to loop, you might have to click it to see the animation.

Ileriayo Adebiyi • Jul 19 '20

Hey Waylon, you went out of your way to do this.
I'm so grateful. Thanks 🙏😭

Zen • Jul 18 '20

mzaini30 / mzaini30

View on GitHub

Waylon Walker • Jul 18 '20

Keep happy, smile on.

Zen • Jul 18 '20

🙃

Lynn Langit • Jul 9 '20 • Edited

Here's mine - github.com/lynnlangit

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

I like your profile pic, I come from neighboring Iowa.

That is a wicked consistent commit history!

Do you have the new profile available? You can now Create a new repo called lynnlangit then see if you see this button. and it will show up on your profile like some of the examples here.

Lynn Langit • Jul 9 '20

cool! thanks for sharing - setting it up now

perpetual . education • Jul 9 '20 • Edited

Yikes. Who knows. What a mess. You got your github (microsoft) - and your gitlab for some clients/contract - and your bitbuckets for the other clients... and the private things - and the not private things and the person things... and some old beanstalk things - and a couple random deploybot things - and the work things - and the other work thing that's secret and under another name... so - yeah. Way too much stuff - and also not enough stuff in some cases. Depends who's judging you. PRO TIP: just keep a daily diary - and you can get full green squares ; )

Keff • Jul 9 '20

I'd suggest reading this post, it talks about the negatives of the graph.

GitHub activity graphs are meaningless

Rob Kendal {{☕}} ・ May 29 ・ 7 min read

#webdev #productivity #github

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

agree 💯 One of the reasons I like DEV is that they have removed a lot of the things that cause those negative feelings. I appreciate that.

Definitely marking 🔖 that one for a read later on.

Keff • Jul 9 '20

Worth reading, I fell into that hole for quite some time, and it can be really exhausting and un-healthy.

they have removed a lot of the things that cause those negative feelings.

Absolutely, that's the main reason I'm here, instead of other communities.

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

Mine is full mostly because of my blog. I also appreciate that I can look at the streaks of white and know that I took a healthy break.

perpetual . education • Jul 9 '20

That's amazing. NOT working sometimes - seems like a good way to tell if someone is stable!

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

I was mostly discussing the new profile feature, when you have a repo named after you username it can become your profile page now.

I agree though repos everywhere. I tend to like GitHub / GitLab the best. I use Azure DevOps a bit and it feels very corporate red tape, hide a lot of things, and make simple things complicated.

I have my blog backed by git, that's honestly 95% of my green squares. I have some family events that prevent me from getting to it everyday, I am proud that I am able to step away when needed during those times, its not easy for me.

perpetual . education • Jul 9 '20

Cool! We didn't see the specifics. Now we'll definitely need to build a funny thing to put there.

偏右 • Jul 9 '20

github.com/afc163/

Keff • Jul 10 '20

That's original, you gained a new follower here :)

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

I like the alignment of the squirrel and nut 😃

Saurav M H • Jul 26 '20 • Edited

I recently became so obsessed with 8-bit/pixelated images, I decided to kinda theme around the profile markdown with it.

Check it out here: github.com/sauravhiremath

P.s The chair is a rotating gif tho ⚡️⚡️.

Waylon Walker • Jul 27 '20

I like how the 8bit game style images bring in a sense of personality.

Loralighte • Jul 9 '20

Here is my GitHub Profile, there was a recent issue where I lost my older account so that sucked.

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

Do you have the new profile available?

Create a new repo called KaiLikesLinux then see if you see this button.

Loralighte • Jul 9 '20

I love this, will make mine less generic later but:

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

You're in now 😎

Aaron McCollum • Jul 9 '20

Here is my profile page. I did a basic 'About Me' page and will go back to edit later. Thanks for the tip!

coderjojo • Jul 11 '20

This is so cool!

Here is mine

Please add your profile to Developer Profile so that others will get inspiration to create their own. 😃

Waylon Walker • Jul 18 '20

Love the eight-bit octocat and the change in font. Only the second I have seen without the default font.

Abhijeet Umbarkar • Mar 23 '21 • Edited

Hello, love and support from India.
Below is my Github profile link. It is a bit simple, informative. I know you're expecting some cool graphics.
abhijeet9920

Waylon Walker • Mar 25 '21

Nice profile. Sounds like you have quite a bit of experience to share with us.

Zen • Jul 29 '20 • Edited

I updated my README

Waylon Walker • Jul 29 '20

Dang those are some long hours!

Zen • Jul 29 '20

Yeah. You're right. But, I like it 🥰🥰🥰

And, I created a tool called Efektif (mzaini30.js.org/efektif). It's like TODO app with badge as summary of done events. So, I created this app/tool for install the badge in my Github README 😂

Waylon Walker • Jul 29 '20

I am not sure what the goal of your readme is, but I would suggest telling your audience a bit about you. who are you? why are you on github? What projects are you excited about?

Zen • Jul 29 '20

Thanks

Ben Sinclair • Jul 9 '20

just went live for a subset of user

I guess I'm not one of those users. That sort of roll-out isn't a great experience for the majority of users, and it smacks of trying to hype things up with artificial scarcity.

What will I put on it if I get the chance? Probably a link back here, and that's about it. I don't really use GitHub much in terms of committing my own stuff. I know that whatever I do, it won't have icons and emoji strewn about like most people do, because I find that difficult to read!

Keff • Jul 9 '20

I think it's available for everyone, try and create a repo called the same as your username. You should see a green banner saying, "you've found a secret".

Aral Roca • Jul 30 '20

This is mine.
And the article about how I did it.

Waylon Walker • Jul 30 '20

I really enjoyed the images from your article! Great way to get the latest 5 posts live on your profile. You're missing a link to your DEV profile 😉

Static Readme Regeneration

Aral Roca ・ Jul 29 ・ 5 min read

#webdev #tutorial #productivity #github

Wyatt Walsh • Feb 23 '23

Solid development progression!

Link to my GitHub Profile

Hugo • Jul 10 '20

@HugoLiconV

Waylon Walker • Jul 18 '20

I love using tmux/vim as well. I use VSCode, because the terminal options on windows are so bad. Sometimes I open VSCode and full screen he integrated terminal, because its the best terminal I have found for me on windows.

BTW I made a PR, I wasn't sure if Clon was a thing or a typo, proceed accordingly

- clon
+ clone

Hugo • Jul 18 '20

It was a typo. Thanks for that ❤️❤️

Waylon Walker • Jul 18 '20

NP, I try to live by the Boy Scout rule in open source.

Abhishek Naidu • Jul 12 '20

Finally, Awesome GitHub Profile README’s is here, If anyone, who wants to showcase their GitHub profile readme, they can share it here :

github.com/abhisheknaiidu/awesome-...

Stefany Sá • Jul 11 '20

I really like this feature @StefanyVasc

Kumar Abhishek • Jul 13 '20

Really like the simple & clean design and the colored tags!

Waylon Walker • Jul 11 '20

Love the array of color

Stephanie Handsteiner • Jul 9 '20

I seem to be part of the subset that has the feature already.

Waylon Walker • Jul 18 '20

No Coffee ☕?

Stephanie Handsteiner • Jul 18 '20

No. I just don't like the taste of it.

krishna kakade • Jul 9 '20

Waylon Walker • Jul 18 '20

I like the update. I think you could pull some more from the bio on your website over here.

krishna kakade • Jul 19 '20

Okay thanks

Alvaro Saburido • Jul 9 '20

That's pretty dope, taking inspiration in all your github profiles guys, Waylon it's ok for you if I use the same images you are using as badges for dev.to, twitter etc? I like the approach :D

Waylon Walker • Jul 18 '20

The banner you came up with is super rad

Alvaro Saburido • Jul 20 '20

Hehehe thank you very much, I took it from my page open graph images and tweak it a little bit :D

Waylon Walker • Jul 9 '20

Go for it, just copy the images to your repo. They might change or be deleted in mine for one reason or another. I actually took half of them from another profile readme 😃

Vuelancer • Jul 18 '20 • Edited

youtu.be/x0Boemw9teU

I have made a video about markdown and github profile! I used your profile to show demo!

Share it to your frnds, if you like the video!

Waylon Walker • Jul 18 '20

Thanks for the feature

Louis Low • Oct 14 '20 • Edited

This is mine.

Waylon Walker • Oct 14 '20

♥️

Elango Sundar • Jul 12 '20

Nice...! This is my profile - github.com/elangosundar.
Please add your README profile in github.com/elangosundar/awesome-RE...

Waylon Walker • Jul 29 '20 • Edited

Your awesome readme templates site is pretty cool. You made fast work to put that together! You should have it on your own readme.

Daljeet Singh Chhabra • Jul 28 '20

This is mine

Waylon Walker • Jul 28 '20

Love your fun fact. I completely agree with it

Veeraj • Jul 10 '20

github.com/veerajongit

Waylon Walker • Jul 18 '20

Your banner image is really cool, make sure to give us links to all of those places.

Waylon Walker • Jul 10 '20

Yes it's just a readme

Yunwei Xiao • Jul 18 '20 • Edited

Have a look at mine ✨ I use the fancy fonts ✒️

github.com/xiaoluoboding/xiaoluobo...

Waylon Walker • Jul 18 '20

The change in fonts is really cool, I haven't really noticed any change the default GitHub font.

Waylon Walker • Jul 10 '20

Post a pic when you get it!

Martin Adams • Jul 12 '20

so cool!

My profile is here.

Waylon Walker • Jul 12 '20

Great call to action. Keep on building things. Real projects that you think through on you own carry a lot of weight towards getting you that first Jr dev job. 100daysofcode is a really amazing way to do that.