Ever wanted to have your own GitHub badges?
Maybe you simply wanted to have consistent colors?
Maybe you wanted to have them be less blurry?
Or look better on high-resolution displays?
Maybe you simply love SVG.
Maybe you fancy a format that uses less than half the bandwidth.
As for me, I wanted a format that people can reuse and hack on.
I wanted a service for everyone.
I made the GitHub Badge Service.
Here's how it works.
http://gh-badges.herokuapp.com/<SUBJECT>-<STATUS>-<COLOR>.svg
Use two dashes -- to have one dash as text.
Use two underscores __ to have one underscore as text.
Use an underscore _ if you want a space. Or, you know, use a space.
Colors:
Tell your favorite badge service to use it!
This.
All the activity and the code sits
here.
:wq