shields VS blog-post-workflow

StyleSpark is a productivity tool designed to help developers gain insights into their coding styles by analyzing their code snippets and matching them to the styles of iconic programmers. Specifically, it is a new GitHub Action that programmers can include in their workflows to inspire personal growth and improvement in coding practices by providing users with a fun and educational way to explore different programming styles. It leverages Llama 3 to analyze snippets from your GitHub repos to identify how your style compares to computing's heroes! When it's done, it will update your README with a snazzy badge powered by Shields.io, like this one:

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Shields opened my eye to a fascinating new potential shape of project.

Sometimes a project depends on hundreds of even thousands of custom integrations. Think about a something like TripIt - it works by accepting forwarded emails from different travel reservation sites, but that means somebody has to write hundreds of custom email parsers for those sites and then update them on a continuous basis.

This is prohibitively expensive and frustrating and difficult to do.

... and then Shields came along and did exactly that by making it open source and using open source development processes to maintain those integrations with the help of hundreds of collaborators: https://github.com/badges/shields/tree/master/services

I've been keeping an eye out for similar shapes of project ever since I noticed this. It feels like there's a lot of potential here.

If you want to make it look a bit fancier you could add some nicely styled badges! There are generators for static and dynamic badges like https://badgen.net/, https://shields.io/, and https://forthebadge.com/. You can make your own too, a badge is just a markdown-rendered image.

He has many Shields badges

Veja no site shields.io. Segue as que eu mais uso:

It's only possible because of Shields Project, Simple Icons & beloved all Contributors. We do respect & love our all contributors.

Now, we will create a new action for your repository. There is an awesome action template that can be used directly. This action will fetch the blogs from your Medium profile and put that on your GitHub profile page.

I would like to be able to add an RSS feed with latest posts to my github profile via https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/blog-post-workflow

Thanks to GitHub-flavored markdown, there's a lot you can do in your profile README. Mine has links to sites I've built, recordings of talks I've given, ways to connect, and a Blog Post Workflow written by @gautamkrishnar using Github Actions.

That space alloted labeled "Recent Updates" is meant to list scraped RSS or feed from any of my blogs. I used this Github Action.

Paste the code inside your yml file. Get the RSS feed URLs of your blog post sources and replace the feed list in the code above, indicated with an arrow. Visit this repository and scroll down to get the RSS feed URLs of some popular blogging platforms. Simply remove the links in the code above and paste yours in, separated by a comma if you have multiple sources. Don't remove the quotation marks.

The github action supports a readme_path parameter. After a quick dive in its source code I noticed that this file could be anything, not necessarily a markdown file. Problem solved!

As I planned to start blogging, I stumbled across this idea as I myself was looking to start a blogging presence of my own. As I looked around, I was able to only find one easy-to-use GitHub action that would allow me to add a list of my posts to my readme. Sadly, I was disappointed to discover that this action had little formatting, only setting up the posts as a bulleted list of links, which was less than appealing to the eye.

If you are active in writing blog posts, maybe you will want to add them to your readme profil page. Mine are not generated using some action because I have linked them to the repository concerned, but you can do it using blog-post-workflow (the description of how to use it are in the readme).