--- title: Upgrading your GitHub readme | daily.dev description: Tips for upgrading and making a GitHub profile presentable and representing the developer's skills and goals. canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/upgrading-your-github-readme-lypuueje2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Upgrading your GitHub readme | daily.dev og:description: Tips for upgrading and making a GitHub profile presentable and representing the developer's skills and goals. og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/upgrading-your-github-readme-lypuueje2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LYPuUeJe2.png og:image:alt: Upgrading your GitHub readme og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Upgrading your GitHub readme **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 1 min read · 161 upvotes · 8 comments ## Summary Tips for upgrading and making a GitHub profile presentable and representing the developer's skills and goals. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@tduyng** · 14 upvotes > Alternative, for someone looking a more advanced and interesting README: https://github.com/lowlighter/metrics > > This is an infographics generator with 30+ plugins and 300+ options to display stats about your GitHub account and render them as SVG, Markdown, PDF, or JSON! **@lucas809** · 0 upvotes > Another alternative is https://readme.so, its a tool to help you build your readme and its free **@byrone** · 0 upvotes > Who have managed to use it. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community 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