Jonah Lawrence
Israel
Full stack web developer and UI designer. Experienced with building websites from scratch, database management, working with and developing APIs, graphic design, and automation tools. Skilled at learning new tools and technologies and always improving. I enjoy teaching people about GitHub and contributing to Open Source and I have created many tutorials on my YouTube channel, "Dev Pro Tips" as well as blog posts on Hashnode and Dev.to. My most popular open source projects on GitHub include "GitHub Readme Streak Stats", a project that allows showing off your contribution streak on your GitHub profile, and "Readme Typing SVG" for dynamically generating animated images with a typing effect.
Community Contributions
LatestBlog postsOpen sourceVideo/PodcastGitHub Stars Intro and Swag Unboxing
I spoke about GitHub Stars, the process of becoming one, and showed the amazing swag I received from GitHub. I also hosted giveaways on Discord where I encouraged people to create GitHub pull requests and share what they most want to learn about GitHub in order to win stickers.
Video/Podcast / 10-09-2023
How To Self-Host GitHub Readme Streak Stats on Vercel
I demonstrated the steps of creating a copy of the GitHub Readme Streak Stats repository and hosting it on Vercel
Video/Podcast / 08-31-2023
Create and Elevate Your GitHub Profile README
In this article I show how to add content to your GitHub profile including adding a profile README and several dynamic projects designed for making your profile stand out.
Blogpost / 08-13-2023
Popup for Google Tasks
Simple browser extension for opening Google Tasks in a popup window. It is under the MIT License so can also be used as a template for creating similar popup window extensions.
Open source project / 08-02-2023
GitHub Readme YouTube Cards
GitHub Readme YouTube Cards is one of my latest open source projects. It allows you to easily display recent YouTube videos on your GitHub profile page and display them nicely with titles, thumbnails, durations, and relative timestamps similar to the YouTube interface.
Open source project / 09-07-2022
Hosting a Python Discord Bot for Free with Fly.io
I made videos and a blog post showing how to host a Python Discord bot on Fly.io and setting it up to have continuous integration from a GitHub repository using GitHub actions.
Blogpost / 08-29-2022
Why Most Wordle Clones are Wrong!
In this blog post I explain one of the trickiest aspects of creating a Wordle Clone that even most experienced developers miss.
Blogpost / 02-07-2022
Making a Wordle Clone Discord Bot with Python
In this video, I used the Nextcord fork of Discord.py to show how to make a Wordle clone that runs in Discord using a slash command for starting a new game, and on_message to listen for replies to the message and updating the puzzle. The source code for the bot is available on GitHub.
Video/Podcast / 02-03-2022
