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
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Cool feature!
My Profile 🙂
This is the coolest profile of the lot :)
This definitely takes the cake for the most minimal and aesthetically pleasing profile README that I've come across so far. 👍🤤
That Gif is sooo cool!✨ I want one now.
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
I like how you have listed out things horizontally to save space, looks great!
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.
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.
It's looking great; I'll be getting some inspiration from it :)
Here is mine
Amazing ✨
Please add your profile to Developer Profile so that others will get inspiration to create their own. 😃
Excellent stuff, thanks for sharing, I knew there were going to be quite creative ideas here!
I drew inspiration from github.com/CyrisXD and just mangled some code.
It's nice that you give credit to him :) Both are quite cool! I might consider something similar.
A man should give credit where it's due.
That is sooo cool
Thanks!
It looks brilliant. I like how clean and accurate you've designed it. My absolute favorite!
Well designed and such a cool call to action!
Thanks Waylon! Loving yours too btw 😊 ✨
Thanks @mangamaui !
Your profile pic is super cool, Star Wars and Photography.
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 😛
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.
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. 😅
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.
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.
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?
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.
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. : )
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.
That is super detailed. 👍
Have done a couple of changes. Now it´s smaller and more focused. Less of a CV in some parts.
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
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.
Thanks! 😄 Yes github can actually render svg images in readme even with animations
Here's mine @lauragift21 :)
Love the centering