
I made a terminal-style SVG card generator for GitHub READMEs (and this is my first post ever, please be nice)
Hi. This is my first dev.to post. I've been lurking here for about two years, saving articles to my reading list and never actually reading them. Classic. Anyway, I built something and I wanted to share it, so here we are. The problem (aka my excuse to build something) I kept seeing the same GitHub profile READMEs. GitHub Readme Stats. A badge. Another badge. Maybe a snake animation if you were feeling adventurous. Don't get me wrong — those tools are great. I use them too. But I wanted my profile to feel more like me — something with a bit more personality. Something that looked like a deliberate design decision, not just "I copy-pasted this from someone else's README." So I did what any reasonable developer would do instead of just updating their bio: I spent way too long building a whole new tool. What I built Terminal Identity — terminal-style SVG identity cards, generated from a single URL. One <img> tag. No tokens. No GitHub Actions. No setup at all. <img src= "https://terminal-i
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