When I was a child I enjoyed looking at the back cover of video games and seeing the informative info-icons at the back of the game that showed whether it was 1 player or 2 player.
Here is the back cover of Red Alert, a PC game. I like the badges for game specifications.
I think some people really enjoy the stamp collecting activity of collecting badges or features on lists, it's incredibly satisfying and feels valuable. It could just be nostalgia but displaying valuable facts in one place is kind of pleasurable.
I notice a lot of GitHub projects have badges for build status, Go code quality report, and documentation icons. Some projects even have a "spin up on Heroku" or "DigitalOcean" one click deployment button.
I had similar feelings of going through an Argos catalogue and looking at computer specs in 1999-2001
I don't play video games anymore but I wonder if there's a value in establishing industry wide specification icons for enterprise features, such as OAuth 2 or security standards for credit card processing. So you can easily pick interoperable software that meets criteria.
As a matter of interest, how does this service differ from existing services? The only thing I can see is some nice options and SVG output looks good.
It would be nice if you could create the SVG directly from the query parameters of the url to allow fully dynamic badges like some of the other services.
> We don’t develop for the money, power, fame, or codebabes. We do it For the Badge. It all started because of an obsession with two words: “build passing”. It all ended with this: badges, for badges’ sake.
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Here is the back cover of Red Alert, a PC game. I like the badges for game specifications.
I think some people really enjoy the stamp collecting activity of collecting badges or features on lists, it's incredibly satisfying and feels valuable. It could just be nostalgia but displaying valuable facts in one place is kind of pleasurable.
I notice a lot of GitHub projects have badges for build status, Go code quality report, and documentation icons. Some projects even have a "spin up on Heroku" or "DigitalOcean" one click deployment button.
I had similar feelings of going through an Argos catalogue and looking at computer specs in 1999-2001
I don't play video games anymore but I wonder if there's a value in establishing industry wide specification icons for enterprise features, such as OAuth 2 or security standards for credit card processing. So you can easily pick interoperable software that meets criteria.