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This is interesting because this didn't used to be possible from a repository's readme, I believe, because linked images would be cached and served from GitHub's CDN. I wonder what's changed (if it indeed has)

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That's literally discussed in depth in the article. They use headers for cache-busting just like README badges have done forever.

Ah gotcha, sorry, totally missed that!

You can check it here https://github.com/dwyl/hits

Also https://twitter.com/holman/status/427937383376379904

Oh wow I wish I knew this sooner. They should bring back Bitdeli.

Neat, thanks!

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