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this functionality has already been available as part of github pages. Not really sure what you are adding here.

I don't think so. This uses the GitHub API via browser side Javascript to auto generate a page, listing and rendering the READMEs in your recent repos. Plus listing and rendering the .md files in a special "blog-posts" repo.

This is similar to what some big companies do to render a projects page. A copied Twitter's[1][2] a while back when it was simpler[3][4].

[1] https://twitter.github.io/

[2] https://github.com/twitter/twitter.github.io

[3] http://antoncohen.github.io/

[4] https://github.com/antoncohen/antoncohen.github.io

I’m confused about the blog-posts repo. Why wouldn’t that be the only data source? Why would you want to pull in other repos?

There are two use-cases: project pages (from github repo README) and blog-posts (coming from .md files in blog-posts repo). You can choose to not have blog-posts and it will still generate a blog-like site from all your github project READMEs.

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