I think the title should be "GitHub <i>Profile</i> Readme Templates". I was confused why every one was a person's resume instead of what I was expecting, a template for documenting a project.<p>The ones I saw all shared the sensibility of something written in Comic Sans MS using the <blink> tag.
The integrity of this being a project to "collect awesome readmes" is somewhat undone by people adding their own readme. It's made worse as it seems each submission is accepted as long as it meets formatting criteria, without any standard for quality. I could see this being a great resource if it were actually a collection of readmes for various projects (and sure, profiles as well) deemed excellent and worth sharing by a single, objective person or group. But as it is, this project is not worth our note.
The strangest commonality I noticed is that many of those templates stress social media involvement and not code repositories. The more visually elaborate a template becomes the more true this pattern appears.<p>I don’t really care what people’s social media accounts are. I am interested in what projects they author or contribute to, so for much of the content is way off focus. Maybe it’s just because I’m old.
I really like profile READMEs that are powered by GitHub Actions (see <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2020/Jul/10/self-updating-profile-readme/" rel="nofollow">https://simonwillison.net/2020/Jul/10/self-updating-profile-...</a> ) - this collection doesn't seem to have a way of sharing those yet, which would be great since getting the Actions YAML right can be tricky to figure out at first.
Wow, I should find a job I’d be happy staying at for a few decades so that I don’t have to deal with this nonsense come hiring time. Is this really what we want recruiting to become?
I prefer my Readmes minimal and text based.
In my world, emojies and animations are not welcomed everywhere.<p><a href="https://github.com/kautukkundan/Awesome-Profile-README-templates/blob/master/code-styled/Thaiane.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kautukkundan/Awesome-Profile-README-templ...</a><p><a href="https://github.com/kautukkundan/Awesome-Profile-README-templates/blob/master/dynamic-realtime/8bithemant.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kautukkundan/Awesome-Profile-README-templ...</a>