GitHub has a new tool for automatically generating social sharing images. It uses the GitHub GraphQL API to collect data, generates some HTML from a template, and pipes it to Puppeteer to “take a screenshot” of that HTML. Open Graph is a set of standards for websites to be able to declare metadata that platforms can pick out.
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