GitHub recently released a new feature that allows you to create a Readme profile, so you can now customize your GitHub profile page.

This feature is really nice. It makes your GitHub profile look more professional and content-rich. In the future, I expect GitHub to look like LinkedIn for developers.

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Introducing GitHub Readme — Recent Medium Articles

I’ve seen a lot of plug-ins that people have made, like the GitHub stats card, programming language stats, and even games (e.g. this online chess game or even tic-tac-toe).

In this readme, the user has included a list of their recently published Medium articles. But it’s only available on their profile. To achieve the same results, I need to copy their code, which takes time.

That’s the original idea behind this plug-in. I created a separate repository with a customized function. I then made the function more generic so everyone can add their recently published Medium articles to their GitHub readme.

Steps

To use this plug-in, you only need to add this script to your GitHub readme:

So the format is:

https://github-readme-medium-recent-article.vercel.app/medium/<medium-username>/<article-index>

• medium-username: Your medium username/profile
• article-index : Your recent article index (e.g. 0 means your latest article)

The full steps can be seen in my repository. Also if you’ve found any issues, just open an issue or create a PR directly on that repository.

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