Create a README for Your GitHub Profile

In one of our previous videos, we had a contribution request. The contributor, Atharva Salitri, had a profile README for his GitHub and we noted in our retrospective that it would be cool to have one for Stateless Code and my own profile.

In our last video, we set up a GitHub profile README for the Stateless Code org. It was not very straightforward or smooth experience, with a bunch of "gotchas" and mistakes along the way.

In this video, we make a GitHub README for Mike's personal profile (msducheminjr). We compose the file directly in GitHub's Markdown editor (using a draft issue for more editor tools) as needed.

You can even drag-and-drop an image into your README. Just be sure to have a line break before and after it so that it renders properly (or use HTML tags in your Markdown).

You can use your README to spice up your profile introduce yourself to the rest of GitHub.

This video covers:
00:00:00 Introduction and review of the differences between user profile README and organization profile README
00:02:44 Create the msducheminjr/msducheminjr.git repo
00:04:33 Draft the README using the GitHub markdown editor for an issue
00:05:33 Review draft of README
00:06:08 Drag and drop some images into the GitHub markdown editor
00:07:30 Add some line breaks to get pictures to render properly
00:09:42 Commit the file directly on GitHub
00:10:07 Test to see that it shows up on the profile and move the action item to Done

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See other related StatelessCode videos:
- Set up a GitHub Profile README for an Organization https://youtu.be/hqFq-2yqPZM
- Create a RubyGem 101: Retro on Version 0.5.0 and Patch Releases https://youtu.be/FIA8wyaHmnk
- Create a RubyGem 92: Add Contributing Guidelines to the Project https://youtu.be/IiUWiV2svIU

See Mike's profile on GitHub:
- https://github.com/msducheminjr

Resources that we relied upon for this solution:
- Atharva Salitri's GitHub profile https://github.com/the-amazing-atharva
- Dan Cranney ProfileMe.dev (used for social icons) https://github.com/danielcranney/profileme-dev

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