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For the badge: Badges for badges' sake

105 points by popcalc 3y ago

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tony-allan 3y ago
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. For example: https://badgen.net/badge/color/pink/pink https://badgen.net/badge/color/pink/pink
- notpushkin 3y ago
  I think For The Badge is less of a service and more of a social commentary and/or shitpost. When I first found out about it I found this style quite refreshing (still do!), and suggested it to shields.io. Now you can use it for your real badges: https://shields.io/badge/status-works_on_my_machine-green?style=for-the-badge https://shields.io/badge/status-works_on_my_machine-green?st...
- mannykannot 3y ago
  On the basis of your first sentence, it deserves the 'Minimally Useful' badge.
hnarn 3y ago
I don’t get it. What is the purpose of this page? Is it just some kind of social commentary?
- jxf 3y ago
  There is an "About" link at the top which may shed some light: > "For the Badge is [...] a complete joke."
- junon 3y ago
  Yes. An art piece, perhaps. I personally love it.
- sweetjuly 3y ago
  For when you need to advertise that your open source project is, in fact, gluten free. Obviously.
- xigoi 3y ago
  It's a social commentary on how some projects really overdo it with badges.
- nahimn 3y ago
  Live laugh love hnarn, Perhaps you need a badge like this in your life to bring you joy on your repos
- 8organicbits 3y ago
  If you enable javascript and click About it says: > For the Badge is a Then crossed out: > ~Grassroots Movement~ > ~Scientific Endeavor~ > ~Humanitarian Society~ > ~Literary Masterpiece~ > ~Knitting Club~ Then normal font: > Complete Joke. > 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.
labster 3y ago
An endless string of badges really needs the occasional mushroom or snake to keep it interesting.
- 6502nerdface 3y ago
  Here you go https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI
- tpoacher 3y ago
  *mushoom
- fisherjeff 3y ago
  Well this is a vivid 20-ish-year(?!) flashback I did not expect to have today, thanks!
  - kurthr 3y ago
    We don't need no stinking badgers! :)
    - makapuf 3y ago
      Til the very next day ...
samsquire 3y ago
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. https://hafskjold.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/redalert2_02.jpg https://hafskjold.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/redalert2_0... 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.
arun-mani-j 3y ago
Oh I already have a line "Proudly runs on electricity " in my website footer [1]. Guess it is the time to replace it with a badge :D 1 - https://arunmani.in/ https://arunmani.in/
aprilnya 3y ago
aww they got rid of “MOM MADE”/“PIZZA ROLLS”

105 points by popcalc 3y ago

deleted 3y ago

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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. For example: https://badgen.net/badge/color/pink/pink https://badgen.net/badge/color/pink/pink

notpushkin 3y ago
I think For The Badge is less of a service and more of a social commentary and/or shitpost. When I first found out about it I found this style quite refreshing (still do!), and suggested it to shields.io. Now you can use it for your real badges: https://shields.io/badge/status-works_on_my_machine-green?style=for-the-badge https://shields.io/badge/status-works_on_my_machine-green?st...
mannykannot 3y ago
On the basis of your first sentence, it deserves the 'Minimally Useful' badge.

hnarn 3y ago

I don’t get it. What is the purpose of this page? Is it just some kind of social commentary?

jxf 3y ago
There is an "About" link at the top which may shed some light: > "For the Badge is [...] a complete joke."
junon 3y ago
Yes. An art piece, perhaps. I personally love it.
sweetjuly 3y ago
For when you need to advertise that your open source project is, in fact, gluten free. Obviously.
xigoi 3y ago
It's a social commentary on how some projects really overdo it with badges.
nahimn 3y ago
Live laugh love hnarn, Perhaps you need a badge like this in your life to bring you joy on your repos
8organicbits 3y ago
If you enable javascript and click About it says: > For the Badge is a Then crossed out: > ~Grassroots Movement~ > ~Scientific Endeavor~ > ~Humanitarian Society~ > ~Literary Masterpiece~ > ~Knitting Club~ Then normal font: > Complete Joke. > 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.

labster 3y ago

An endless string of badges really needs the occasional mushroom or snake to keep it interesting.

6502nerdface 3y ago
Here you go https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI https://youtu.be/EIyixC9NsLI
tpoacher 3y ago
*mushoom
fisherjeff 3y ago
Well this is a vivid 20-ish-year(?!) flashback I did not expect to have today, thanks!
- kurthr 3y ago
  We don't need no stinking badgers! :)
  - makapuf 3y ago
    Til the very next day ...

samsquire 3y ago

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. https://hafskjold.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/redalert2_02.jpg https://hafskjold.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/redalert2_0... 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.

arun-mani-j 3y ago

Oh I already have a line "Proudly runs on electricity " in my website footer [1]. Guess it is the time to replace it with a badge :D 1 - https://arunmani.in/ https://arunmani.in/

aprilnya 3y ago

aww they got rid of “MOM MADE”/“PIZZA ROLLS”