This is great, yet another place I have to repost my resume/portfolio/blog to satisfy the trend-following recruiters and hirers... Maybe I'll just do this<p><pre><code> # [CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS](https://mysite.tld)</code></pre>
When MSFT bought them, I predicted they would pivot to adding features I don’t care about. I was right. They went from the best support I’ve ever seen (report an issue, get a personal email asking for details, see it fixed) to the worst (not touching a single feature I find worthwhile).<p>There’s about a thousand things I wish they would fix or add before this. They still don’t allow videos so every screencast demo on GitHub is still a giant GIF, right?<p>I used to like GitHub so much I paid out of pocket even when I was unemployed. Now it’s on my list to check out GitLab again. Companies don’t know when to stop. It’s like they created the bicycle and add another wheel every year as an improvement.
I see this in the context of TripleByte attempting to take on LinkedIn.<p>MS owns LinkedIn. This very much looks like an effort to turn GitHub profiles into LinkedIn-style profiles.<p>This is not going to be pretty.
I don't like Emojis in my documents. I think they are distracting. Tools like Notion is actively promoting it like this new Github profile docs. Does anyone else feel the same? :-)
There are a lot of commenters sharing their opinions of what they don't like abut Github’s interface. It is true there are a lot of quirks and warts in what is a site many of us spend a lot of time on.<p>Ive found browser extensions have been a great way to augment and customize my Github experience, bringing quality of life improvements that Im grateful to have every day.<p>My top two favorites are:<p>Refined Github [1] -- huge collection of quality of life improvements. e.g. always sort issues/PRs as most recently updated first, when recently pushed to a branch show a button on project page (or upstream of fork) to open a PR based on that branch, quicklink to most reacted to comment on an issue page. Also provides a surface to inject custom CSS for personal tweaks.<p>Octolinker [2] -- Turns require/import/include paths in files into hyperlinks to that file or repository. I use this every single day to navigate code in projects.<p>I know that extensions aren't a panacea, but personally I have found them be very valuable to my workflow.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/OctoLinker/OctoLinker" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/OctoLinker/OctoLinker</a>
Sad to see such a negative reaction here.<p>We have something similar internally - we call them personal user manuals. They explain how we like to work (e.g. communication preferences), and a little bit about ourselves.<p>We ask new joiners to write theirs when they join. They make a good introduction to the company and can provide guidance when wondering how best to interact with others.
I suspect you will soon see a project on github that will export your LinkedIn to read me format and vice versa.<p>Maybe even a git hook to do it automatically.
I currently try to convey my (code) interests by pinning my favorite repositories on my profile, but this personal README is a ton more expressive. Looking forward to this!
This is interesting move - I'm surprised they haven't done things like this earlier. The pinned repos was never a great way to provide an introduction since it lacks too much context. I've been experimenting with my own project [0] to get much more info out of GitHub profiles to demonstrate one's skills by generating portfolio sites, but if GitHub does a good job with this it might make my solution somewhat redundant.<p>[0] - <a href="https://www.profiled.app" rel="nofollow">https://www.profiled.app</a>
My first, automatic reaction to this was a whole-head eyeroll. Great. Now Github wants to be a social network.<p>My second thought was "Hey if I used this I could delete my stupid Linkedin account."
Like it or not, people use github for self-promotion.<p>It's not at all unusual for recruiters to ask about your github profile. The code repositories are the resume. The personal README is the cover letter.