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.
- 21 packs: on-this-day, dev humour, tech facts, motivation, Stoic, science, space, wholesome, productivity, puns, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, moon phase, weekday, year progress, countdown.
- Click it to open the customizer.
- Commands: Daily Badge: Refresh, Cycle Pack, Open Customizer.
Settings
| Setting |
Default |
Description |
dailyBadge.pack |
default |
any of the 21 packs — see the enum in settings |
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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