BEPb/BEPb: the special repository behind a GitHub profile README

What the BEPb/BEPb repository actually is

A GitHub profile repository is the repository whose name matches your GitHub username. Its README.md is rendered at the top of your profile page instead of being shown as an ordinary project. BEPb/BEPb is exactly that: the description field reads "Config files for my GitHub profile", and the README is a long, image-heavy page rather than documentation for software.

The repository is written in Shell and carries the topic labels config and github-config. It is not archived, and the last push was on 2026-09-23, so the page is being edited rather than frozen. There are no releases in the repository, which fits: nothing here is versioned for consumption by other people.

The audience is narrow and specific. It is useful to someone who has seen the rendered profile, wants the same kind of page, and is willing to read raw markup to get it. It is not useful to someone looking for a library, a CLI, or a package to add to a dependency file.

How the profile page is assembled from SVG, badges and a README

The mechanism is plain GitHub-flavoured Markdown plus remote images. The README opens with an image reference to assets/Bottom_up.svg, then a centered paragraph of shields.io badges for status, Python 3.12, contributors, stars and forks, and a visitor counter hosted at visitor-badge.laobi.icu. Next comes a header image at ./src/header_.png and a typing animation served by readme-typing-svg.herokuapp.com, whose URL parameters encode the lines of text that scroll across the page.

Everything after that is a mix of tables and HTML. The skills block is a Markdown table with a Property and Data column pair, where the Data cell is a wall of badge images. Elsewhere the README uses raw img tags with width and height attributes to place icons inline. The result is a page that GitHub renders as static HTML with images fetched from third-party hosts at view time.

Two artefacts sit at the top level and are worth noting. github-metrics.svg is a single generated SVG file, and profile-3d-contrib/ is a directory of generated contribution-graph images. Neither is explained in the README, but their names and placement indicate they are committed output rather than hand-written markup. That distinction matters: hand-written badge lines are easy to edit, generated SVGs are not, and a reader who copies the repository wholesale inherits both.

Copying BEPb/BEPb into your own profile repository

There is no install step, because there is no software to install. The way to use this repository is to create your own profile repository and copy the pieces you want. The README gives no instructions for doing so, and the repository files contain no setup commands, so this section describes the markup pattern rather than quoting a procedure.

The only concrete pattern the README does show is how the header image is referenced. It uses a plain Markdown image with a relative path:

![](./src/header_.png)

The same relative-path form appears at the top of the README for the bottom graphic, which is referenced as assets/Bottom_up.svg. If you copy those two files into directories with the same names in your own profile repository, the references resolve unchanged.

Badges are written as image URLs inside Markdown or HTML. The README's opening paragraph wraps them in a centered p tag, for example the status badge at https://img.shields.io/badge/status-updating-brightgreen.svg and the Python badge at https://img.shields.io/badge/Python-3.12-FF1493.svg. The contributors, stars and forks badges point at github.com/BEPb/BEPb, so they report that account's numbers until you change the path.

What you should see after pushing is your own profile page rendering the images you copied. What you will not see is any automation: nothing in the repository rebuilds those SVGs for you.

The example script and what it does not cover

Among the top-level entries is simple_interest.sh, a Shell script whose name suggests a simple interest calculation. The README does not mention it, does not document its arguments, and does not show sample output. That silence is the honest description of its status: it is a file in the repository, not a documented feature.

The same applies to the badge table. It is visually organised, but it is a list of image URLs with no explanation of which service each one calls or what happens when a service disappears. The typing animation, for instance, is served from a Heroku-hosted endpoint embedded directly in the Markdown. If that host stops answering, the page shows a broken image and nothing in the repository will tell you why.

So the repository is best read as a working example rather than a specification. You can see how a profile page is put together, but you cannot look up how any individual piece is supposed to behave.

Where BEPb/BEPb is the wrong choice

The first limitation is that a profile README is a single page with no API. If you want to generate a profile page for many people, or regenerate your own on a schedule, this repository gives you no entry point. The generated SVGs are committed files, and the README documents no workflow that produces them.

The second is external dependency. Nearly every visual element is fetched from a third-party host at page load: shields.io for badges, a visitor counter service, a typing animation service, and Wikimedia for the Python logo. Each is a separate point of failure that you do not control, and the README does not list them as dependencies or suggest fallbacks.

The third is that the content is personal. The typing animation names Andrej Marinchenko and lists "Over 4 years of programming experience" and "Kaggle community member". A TryHackMe badge points at a specific account. Copying the repository without editing those lines publishes someone else's biography on your profile.

Finally, this is not a tool for a team. There is no configuration file, no environment variable, and no way to point it at a different account short of editing the markup by hand.

Alternatives: hand-written README versus a generator

The realistic alternative is not another profile repository but a different approach to the same problem. A generator such as a metrics action takes a configuration file as input and commits a regenerated SVG on a schedule, so the image updates without you touching the markup. The difference in approach is where the work happens: with BEPb/BEPb the SVG is an artefact you commit once and edit by hand, while with a generator the SVG is output that a workflow rewrites.

That trade-off is real in both directions. A generator needs a workflow file, a token with the right permissions, and a scheduled job that can fail silently. BEPb/BEPb needs nothing beyond a repository and a README, but every change to the page is a manual edit. If your profile changes rarely, the manual route costs less. If you want the numbers on the page to track your activity, the generator route is the one that does the work for you.

The same split applies to badges. You can write shields.io URLs by hand, as this repository does, or use a service that composes the whole block from a config. The hand-written version is transparent and portable; the composed version is faster to set up and harder to debug when a badge breaks.

Licence, maintenance and the cost of copying

The repository is MIT licensed, with the LICENSE file at the top level. MIT permits reuse and modification provided the copyright notice and permission notice are retained, and it disclaims warranty. That is a permissive starting point for copying markup and assets, but it covers what is in this repository, not the images it links to. The badges, the typing animation and the Wikimedia logo are served by other parties under their own terms, and the MIT file here says nothing about them. This is not legal advice; if you plan to redistribute the assets, read the LICENSE file and check the terms of each external service you embed.

Maintenance cost is low in the sense that a static README does not break on its own, and high in the sense that nothing tells you when it does. The last push was on 2026-09-23, so the page is current, but there is no release history and no changelog to consult. Upgrading means diffing the markup against your own copy and deciding which changes you want. For a personal page that is a reasonable arrangement. For anything you depend on, it is not.

Editorial conclusion

Adopt BEPb/BEPb if you want a working reference for a decorated GitHub profile page and you are comfortable assembling your own SVG and badge markup from the assets/ and src/ directories. Do not adopt it if you need a documented, reusable component, a package to install, or a build pipeline that regenerates profile images on a schedule: the README shows no such workflow, and the repository is not archived but its last push was on 2026-09-23, so treat it as a personal page that changes when its owner changes it. Before copying anything, open the LICENSE file to confirm the MIT terms, check that the external badge services referenced in the markup still respond, and decide whether you want the github-metrics.svg and profile-3d-contrib/ artefacts at all, since they are generated files tied to one account.

Frequently asked questions

Official sources

1. BEPb/BEPb on GitHub
2. Issues
3. License: MIT
4. Project website
5. README