Profile README: card-based redesign + follow-ups

[TomPlum]

What this is

The profile README.md was redesigned from a plain-text intro into a dynamic, card-based layout. Each card groups a theme of work (so we surface ~15 repos instead of the 6 pinned slots), renders as themed light + dark SVGs, and refreshes its live stats automatically.

Landed in a0e6623.

How it works

File	Role
profile.config.json	The content source — names, taglines, which repos sit in which card, hobbies, now-reading, AoC years. Usually the only file to edit.
scripts/generate-cards.mjs	Renders 14 SVGs (7 cards × light/dark). Pulls live repo star counts + language breakdown from the GitHub API.
.github/workflows/profile-cards.yml	Regenerates + commits the cards daily (06:00 UTC), on config change, and via manual dispatch. Uses the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN — no secrets needed.
assets/cards/*.svg	The generated cards.
README.md	A <picture>-based table that swaps light/dark automatically.

Cards

• Hero — name, tagline, now-reading, and a git-graph motif (a nod to react-git-log).
• Language learning — learn-japanese, nyuusu, natomski, kanji-parser, japanese-keyboard.
• Advent of Code — a seven-year star wall (2018–2024).
• Data visualisation — sleep, activity-trends, clocks, with a sparkline.
• React & open source — react-git-log (flagship), domain-driven-design-template.
• Beyond the editor — guitar, gym, fantasy fiction, food.
• Stats strip — total repos, total stars, top-language bar.

Live vs. config-driven

• Auto (daily): repo star counts on each chip, total repos, total stars, top-language breakdown.
• Config (manual): card blurbs, repo groupings, hobbies, now-reading, and the AoC star wall — AoC completion can't be fetched without a private session cookie, so those years/languages live in config.

Follow-up ideas

• AoC star colours — gold/silver per day based on 1-vs-2-star completion, instead of a flat gold wall.
• WakaTime "coding activity" card — weekly language/time breakdown. Needs a free WakaTime API key stored as a repo secret; generator already has a placeholder hook for it.
• Dashboard screenshots — embed real captures of the sleep / activity-trends dashboards inside the data-viz card so the work is seen, not just linked.
• Snake contribution animation — the classic eaten-contribution-graph GIF as a footer.
• Profile-views / visitor badge — was commented out in the old README; could restyle to match.
• Per-repo deep-link polish — current card links point at one representative repo or a filtered repo search; could make every chip individually clickable (needs splitting chips into separate linked images or an image map).

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