Showcasing skills and expertise
In this section, we’ll explore a special feature on GitHub that is called a GitHub README profile! This is like your complete biography or CV on GitHub – a space where you can tell the community about yourself, what cool projects you’re working on, and many other details about yourself. Sounds great, but how can you create your own README profile?
Creating your README profile
It’s very simple to make a special repository on GitHub that’s all about you. Just create a new repository with the same name as your GitHub username. Yes – it has to be exactly the same. In my case, the repository is named error505:
Figure 12.5 – Creating a profile repository
As you can see in Figure 12.5, there is a message that automatically displays after typing your username as the name of the repository. The message shows that this repository will be special and asks if you’d like to...
