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Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub

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GitHub quietly released a new feature at some point in the past few days: profile READMEs. Create a repository with the same name as your GitHub account (in my case that’s github.com/simonw/simonw), add a README.md to it and GitHub will render the contents at the top of your personal profile page—for me that’s github.com/simonw I couldn’t resist re-using the trick from this blog post and implementing a GitHub Action to automatically keep my profile README up-to-date. Visit github.com/simonw and you’ll see a three-column README showing my latest GitHub project releases, my latest blog entries and my latest TILs. I’m doing this with a GitHub Action in build.yml. It’s configured to run on every push to the repo, on a schedule at 32 minutes past the hour and on the new workflow_dispatch event which means I get a manual button I can click to trigger it on demand. The Action runs a Python script called build_readme.py which does the following: It then turns the results from those various sou

Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub Simon Willison’s Weblog Subscribe Sponsored by: Microsoft - Agent projects stall between demo and production. Microsoft's MVP checklist closes that gap. Try it Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub 10th July 2020 GitHub quietly released a new feature at some point in the past few days: profile READMEs. Create a repository with the same name as your GitHub account (in my case that’s github.com/simonw/simonw ), add a README.md to it and GitHub will render the contents at the top of your personal profile page—for me that’s github.com

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