README LoL Stats to README Profile LoL Stats

After some debugging, commenting, and format changes, and name changes, I decided to make the repository that contains the code for “README Profile LoL Stats” (FKA “README LoL Stats”) public. An advantage to doing so is that anyone with a Riot API key can now use the project (and don’t need to contact me for an access token). The disadvantages were: having to rename the action since my repo name was the same, I should start using different branches to keep new features separate from the main branch (which I supposed is a good thing), and making my code more readable (which is also probably a good thing 👀)....

December 29, 2022 · 1 min · 166 words · Rithika Silva

Initial Alpha of README LoL Stats

After just finishing my first co-op (which could be it’s own post), I decided that I wanted to work on a project using the Riot API since I had been considering it over the summer but was too lazy to get started. Two things happened recently which sparked the idea of README LoL Stats. First was finding about the existence of GitHub Actions. In particular, the fact that I could use one of their runners for free (unlimitedly) as long as I use a workflow in a public repository....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 374 words · Rithika Silva