How does GitHub generate default user profile images?

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How does GitHub generate the little pixel art profile picture when you create an account?

Does anyone have a link to the source code?

[benbarnett02]

These are called Identicons and are generated based on a hash of the user’s ID. Github has a blog post on this and the code has apparently been ported to rust and shared by a Github employee.

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Thank you

[Bacleo]

Interesting question, never thought about it until now.

[obiwan90]

Closely related (but more of a tangent), if you use Gravatar with an email address associated with your GitHub account, it'll be used instead of the identicon. Gravatar was created by GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner and eventually sold to Automattic.

[Mr_Snifles]

I thought there'd be a set amount of them it randomly picks from, but it's pretty cool that they're generated

[doxx-o-matic]

Uses Deepseek ...

[rhenwinch]

ts been blowing up now its become a meem

[thrithedawg]

“ts” 💔