Stand Out by Personalizing Your GitHub Profile
This feature allows you to display a customizable README on your GitHub profile
If you’ve ever browsed around on GitHub you may have noticed some user profiles have been personalized with images, skill badges, activity trackers, etc. This feature was introduced by GitHub back in July 2020, allowing users to create a README for their profile. Check out the documentation here.
The profile README is automatically displayed when someone visits your profile and is immediately visible as it’s placed above your pinned repositories. It allows users to add more content than GitHub’s standard bio section and uses Markdown, which means there is much more flexibility with what can be included (ie: images & gifs).
As with any solid repository, a README is a vital component containing information about the project; in this case, the user.
How to Set Up a Profile README
GitHub provides pretty thorough instructions within their documentation, but it can be summed up into three steps.
- Create a public repository with the exact same name as your GitHub username.