How to Create a Legendary GitHub Profile?
I am an enthusiastic developer since my childhood. I have started with Plus 4 and C 16 machines programming in Basic. I still remember when we were jumping on the bed with my brother, and accidentally saw the Commodore 64 computer on the top of the wardrobe, which was planned to be a Christmas gift for us. I don't have to tell you that we couldn't wait till then. :) I will never forget this memory. Of course in the beginning we only played on the computer, but later I became interested in how can I make my own programs. I have to tell when I first faced the binary number system I did not understand it, but I was still able to draw some sprites on the screen. :)
I continued learning software development during grammar school. I got my Masters degree at the Budapest University of Economics and Technology where I learnt many languages and also learnt a lot about general software development theory and practice.
I have started my professional career as a C++/C# developer, but I switched to Java after a few years. I've visited many meetups and Code Retreats during this time and I've learnt and introduced Agile methodologies in our company. During the years I lead the development team in close cooperation with the product management and testing department.
In 2020 I felt I need something new and I turned towards test automation both API and UI. I did not regret my decision. Since then I tried many frameworks like RestArrured, Selenium, Protractor, Appium, Selenide and Karate.
At the moment I am working as a Senior Software Developer in Test using Selenium and Selenide for UI testing and Karate for API testing.
I believe knowledge sharing is very important, so apart from helping my colleagues work I started my technical blog recently: https://mszeles.com Sharing your knowledge provides many ways for your own development. Whenever I write an article many questions come into my mind which might be interesting for the readers, so I try to answer all of them in my posts. Doing this I learn a lot about the subject. In additionally sharing your knowledge gives a good opportunity for feedback based on which you can further improve.
I just started blogging here on Hashnode a few weeks ago. Only after I posted my first article realized that Hashnode is much more about than just writing. The greatest opportunity actually is reading.
I got totally addicted to reading Hashnode. I read whenever I am travelling, smoking or walking on the street and sometimes even on the toilet. 😊
I am constantly browsing the Recent section of the Hashnode app. I literally read every blog post title. In the end, I read many articles which are connected to my current knowledge, but I am quite open to new things, so I also read any interesting stuff.
I even started to post a curated Hashnode weekly newsletter in which I write about the articles I found most insightful during the last week. Check out Hashnode Weekly 001 by Miki Szeles and Hashnode Weekly 002 by Miki Szeles.
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon an article here on Hashnode about how to create a Chrome extension, which inspired me to develop my open-source plugin Selenideium Element Inspector with which test automation teams can save hours daily as they can generate all relevant selectors for Selenide, Selenium, Cypress, TestCafey, Squish and Playwright.
And also this is the way how I found an awesome post about how to create an outstanding GitHub profile. I did not know, but in case you create a public repository with a README file using your username as the repo name, it will be displayed on your GitHub profile.
%%[google-adsense] So I followed the steps described in this article and here is the result:
I was amazed. It is indeed legendary. 😊
The screenshot is a little bit distorted so check my profile on GitHub.
In case you would like such an awesome Github profile page just read naveenkumar j's outstanding article: Tricks and Hacks: How to make your GitHub profile readme.md looks stunning within 3 steps.
Whenever you are ready, post your GitHub link here, so we can check it. Who knows maybe we will find some interesting open-source projects. 😊
P.S.: Thanks for sharing the article. 👍
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