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Tapajyoti Bose
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Beautify Your GitHub Profile like a Pro

If you have ever used GitHub, you must have come across some impressive-looking profiles and thought "Damn! I want my profile to look like that." Well, this article will help you with precisely that.

1. Add a ReadMe

This is simply the easiest way to boost the visual appeal of your profile many folds. To create a ReadMe for your GitHub profile, create a new repository with your username.

ReadMe Repository

Initialize the repository with a ReadMe.md file and anything you write in the file will be shown in your GitHub Profile.

ReadMe Demo

The ReadMe is the perfect place to describe yourself, list out your achievements and skills. You can also add badges like these to make your profile look even more attractive.

linked-in
github
instagram

To create the badge the syntax is:



![<Badge Name>](https://img.shields.io/badge/<Badge Text>-<Background Color>?style=for-the-badge&logo=<Icon Name>&logoColor=<Logo Color>)


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So the Github badge would look like:



![github](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-000000?style=for-the-badge&logo=GitHub&logoColor=white)]


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You can browse through the list of available icons on Simple Icons

2. Manage your Repositories

Github allows you to pin Repositories and Gists in your profile. This is a remarkable feature that enables you to display the things you want to showcase.

Pinned repositories

It's also a good idea to add details, tags and emojis to make the repository more engaging.

Repository with details
Repository with no details

As you can see, the one with details is way more engaging than the one without any.

3. Contribute, Contribute and Contribute some more!

This is simply the most important step to make your GitHub look awesome! I get it, getting started is scary, so if you need help, check out this article on how to get started with Open Source Development. You don't have to start with huge features or projects; begin with documentation fixes, then move on to tiny bug fixes and features.

Open Source Development can boost your profile regardless if you are going for a job interview or freelancing. After a few good contributions, you will start getting job offers from various companies.

Open Source Contributions

One essential thing to keep in mind is: DO NOT TRY TO CHEAT THE PROCESS. Every one of your contributions is listed on GitHub. There are a lot of people who create fake issues to get a green dot for contribution. This only creates negative impression on the person viewing your profile. If you keep making tiny incremental improvements, you will make it; if you try to use a shortcut, you will likely crash and burn. As the saying goes, "Slow and steady wins the race."

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

I used this README generator

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Just fill in the details such as Name, Tagline, Dev Platforms Username, Current Work, Portfolio, Blog, etc. with a minimal UI.

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Click on Generate README to get your README in markdown…

See how it looks on my profile ==> github.com/jmfayard/

My takeaway from your third paragraph is that this GitHub graph is stupid and toxic, I wish they remove it. It's perfectly fine to take vacations and take a complete break from programming. It is fine to use GitLab for a while and have nothing to show on the graph. It is fine to be sick and take some rest

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Santhosh Balasa

Wow thanks mate this is pretty handy ha

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Tapajyoti Bose • Edited

πŸ˜… I appreciate your thoughts.

I meant "don't make fake contributions". It's highly NOT advisable to keep working till you burn out

Nice readme btw :)

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TamIβ„’

Nice!

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Kaiz Khatri

Done πŸ‘

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Adithya

Cool!😎

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Zen

cool!

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Matvey Romanov

By the way, check out my GitHub :) github.com/ra1nbow1

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Tapajyoti Bose

Its pretty cool. Keep it up πŸ‘

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Jair Neto

Cool dude!

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Saleem Malik

Hi ,

please do check this as well

dev.to/saleemmalikraja/dynamic-git...

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The Vedic Developer

Check out my profile πŸ‘‡.. I tried to do something different.

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Hi, I am Nishant πŸ˜‰. Internet calls me Dr DEV 😎. I am a passionate Open Source Developer, who commits code at night and merges it in day. - heydrdev

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Read more about it here πŸ‘‡

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Fairushin Fadis

Thanks, very interesting post, I will take into account everything you said!

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Tapajyoti Bose

Glad you found it helpful :)

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Miss Pooja Anilkumar Patel

I want to create my repository like Your profie!

can you help me?

github.com/Chiki1601

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The Vedic Developer

Beauty is a relative parameter !! As some said it correctly...

Some beautiful things are more beautiful than other beautiful things - someone

Check it out my profile 😁 github.com/heydrdev

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Miss Pooja Anilkumar Patel
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Miss Pooja Anilkumar Patel

I want to my profile like You...Can you teach me?

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The Vedic Developer

Sure Pooja, It's my pleasure to help you out πŸ˜‡.

Check out my this blog post πŸ‘‡πŸ‘‡

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Viet NT • Edited

Hi. It's nice article.
I followed it and made my readme.md file.
github.com/httvhutceoscop
Any feedback?
Thanks.

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Tapajyoti Bose

Your readme is quite nice. There is1 issue though, the link icons you are using are black, it's hard to see them in the dark mode

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Viet NT

Thank for responding.
I should update these to run in dark model well. ;)

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tonynguyenit

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