Show HN: Supershields.io – smart, Lua-powered SVG status badges

Hi, I built supershields.io as an alternative to shields.io.<p>If you&#x27;re interested in reading about the somewhat unorthodox product development process, I&#x27;ve written a blog article about it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supershields.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supershields.io&#x2F;blog&#x2F;1</a>

Great idea, Working on something for PNGs only.<p>but only for static data passed into query parameters.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bruzu.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bruzu.com</a>

Any reason why the website is not mobile friendly?<p>Unless some css didn’t load up, I’ve got a huge horizontal bar.

Nice, I wanted something like that to create badges for git deps in Clojure. Here is my attempt to do it using Supershields:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supershields.io&#x2F;d1a18b018347defeec7b" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supershields.io&#x2F;d1a18b018347defeec7b</a><p>Two questions:<p>1. text doesn&#x27;t fit, how to fix that?<p>2. quote characters — «&quot;» — get escaped as «&amp;#34;», how to avoid that?

Does GitHub let you embed and keep these as smart? (SVG auto-updates for eg?) My understanding was that Github proxies all SVGs and renders them as PNG&#x2F;JPG at their end.

You implemented all the missing stuff with badges and its awesome.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t ever pay for stuff like this tho, but I hope that is just me.

IMO the horizontal margins around text are way too wide, which makes the badges look ugly (subjective) and space-inefficient when placed in a row (objective). Faithfully copying the shields.io style would be a lot better. Their layout appears to be<p><pre><code> 6px LHS 4px | 4px RHS 6px</code></pre>

Hi cool project. Congrats on finishing.<p>Some questions about lua:<p>- What dev environment do u prefer? When I looked last time I didn&#x27;t really see a dedicated IDE for lua, mostly just plugins for vim&#x2F;emacs.<p>- Did you consider lua in nginx? (Or what are you thoughts on it).<p>- Did you consider moonscript? (Or what are you thoughts on it)

Something I&#x27;ve always wondered about these shields... How do you ensure the platforms where users embed them don&#x27;t cache the images in their CDNs?<p>Is it just a matter of setting headers?

How&#x27;d you sandbox Lua?

Why Lua?