🤓 What's on your GitHub Profile README

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 on the sidebar will create a custom profile that shows up just above your pinned projects.

I am still trying to figure out what to put on mine, but this is what I have so far. I feel like mine is a bit big at the moment, I don't like that my pinned repos end up blow the fold.

updated

I tightened mine up and took inspiration from a few others.

updated again

Updated with a list of latest Twitter followers, using GitHub actions.

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Comments

[Ari 🪐]

Cool feature!

My Profile 🙂

[Kumar Abhishek]

This is the coolest profile of the lot :)

[alephalpha0]

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

[Waylon Walker]

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

[Keff]

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]

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

[Keff]

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]

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]

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

[Mpho Mphego]

Here is mine

[coderjojo]

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

[Keff]

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

[Mpho Mphego]

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

[Keff]

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

[Mpho Mphego]

A man should give credit where it's due.

[Waylon Walker]

That is sooo cool

[Mpho Mphego]

Thanks!

[Anurag Hazra]

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]

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]

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

[Gift Egwuenu]

Here's mine @lauragift21 :)

[Waylon Walker]

Love the centering

[Waylon Walker]

Well designed and such a cool call to action!

[Claudia]

Thanks Waylon! Loving yours too btw 😊 ✨

[Waylon Walker]

Thanks @mangamaui !

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

[Maxim Zhukov]

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

[Juan F Gonzalez]

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]

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]

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. 😅

[Brian Douglas]

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]

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.

[Bruno Paz]

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]

That is super detailed. 👍

[Bruno Paz]

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

[Thomas H Jones II]

I went Old Skool

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

[Waylon Walker]

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

[Thomas H Jones II]

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.