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How I Built A Self-Updating README On My Github Profile

Michael Hoffmann on July 15, 2020

On Hacker News I discovered the article Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub. I was very fascinated about this new GitHub feature and...
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Shriji

Hey you can embed the image linked to your tweet

[<img src="https://github.com/mokkapps/mokkapps/blob/master/tweet.png" width="600">](https://twitter.com/tweetlink?)
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so when someone clicks on the image it takes them to the tweet
github.com/Mokkapps/mokkapps/blob/...

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Michael Hoffmann

Good idea, will take a look!

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val09865 • Edited

Hey, nice post
Just to let you know that the links on github.com/Mokkapps in the "Latest Blog Posts" section are dead. Maybe some typo when generating the url ?

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Jeremy Grifski

Yup! It looks like they're missing a piece of the URL (/blog/).

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Michael Hoffmann • Edited

Yes, the generated RSS feed does not include /blog in the URL, thanks for the info!

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Dave Parr

That's neat. Out of personal curiosity what use R for that part? Was it for fun (totally legitimate reason 😀) or was there a technical aspect?

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Michael Hoffmann

I took the code from github.com/zhiiiyang, didn't want to reimplement this logic myself in another language ;-)

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Dave Parr

Very pragmatic ✅

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Alexandre Sanlim

I created a repository to badges:
github.com/alexandresanlim/Badges4...

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Michael Hoffmann

Cool, will use them!

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spiritupbro

love this

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Deepak Raj

Here is mine. How's It.
If anyone needs source code, fork it.

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Michael Hoffmann

Good idea, will take a look!