These are the notes for a video presentation I made for the February 2023 GitLab Australia/New Zealand community meetup. The meetup was organised by Alec Clews and he invited me to present.

You can view the presentation slides as well.

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On November 22^nd, GitLab announced the release of 14.5, in which you can personalise your profile with a README. This README gives you scope to spice up your GitLab profile page quite a bit, for instance you could:

• Add more details about yourself, beyond what you can fit into GitLab's small biography field
• Link to other pages, or to projects you would like to feature, turning your profile into a portfolio
• Include formatting with any of the markup formats which GitLab can understand

This weekend, I decided to turn my personal GitLab profile into something a bit more personalised, and include an automatically updated list of blog posts from this blog's RSS feed.

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