Daily Badge — VS Code extension

A tiny spark of delight in your status bar, every day. ✨

Open your editor to a fresh quirky message — an on-this-day fact, a dose of developer humor, or a piece of tech trivia — refreshed every day in your timezone. Same content as the Daily Badge GitHub profile badge, so your editor and your profile stay in sync.

Features

A ✨ message in the status bar, updated automatically at your local midnight.
Three packs: default (on-this-day fun), dev-humor, tech-facts.
Click it to open the customizer.
Commands: Daily Badge: Refresh, Cycle Pack, Open Customizer.

Settings

Setting	Default	Description
`dailyBadge.pack`	`default`	`default` · `dev-humor` · `tech-facts`
`dailyBadge.timezone`	(system)	IANA tz, e.g. `Australia/Sydney`. Empty = your system tz.
`dailyBadge.endpoint`	Worker URL	Point at your own deployment if self-hosting.
`dailyBadge.alignment`	`right`	Status bar side.
`dailyBadge.maxLength`	`45`	Status-bar text cap (full text in the tooltip).

How it works

The extension fetches today's message from the Daily Badge Worker (/badge.json?tz=…&pack=…) — the same source the profile badge uses. No tracking, no account, one tiny request per day.

Develop & run

cd vscode-extension
# Press F5 in VS Code to launch an Extension Development Host, or:
npx @vscode/vsce package        # builds daily-badge-x.y.z.vsix
code --install-extension daily-badge-*.vsix

Publishing (maintainer)

Create a publisher at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/manage and an Azure DevOps Personal Access Token (Marketplace → Manage scope).
Set "publisher" in package.json to your publisher id.
Add icon.png (128×128) if not present.
npx @vscode/vsce login <publisher> then npx @vscode/vsce publish.

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