Kurt Schwehr's backup blog: Badges/Shields for software projects

These are kind of fun and sometimes useful, but here are some notes on using badges for a python / c++ project. While badges seem a little silly in the beginning, they do convey key information in a very obvious way and add a splash of color to otherwise very dull README files. I'm sure than for than a few is too many, but here are some examples that I played with this weekend. I still need to push a new version of libais for some of these that go through pypi to work. Right off, I found it weird that there were 3k downloads of libais a month. That seemed really high. But I think that may be coming from virtualenvs being built by SkyTruth and myself.