Release Notes gets Badges

I decided to have some fun and I added badges to my Your Version Number: Release Notes project.

Some specifics on how they work:

• Your birthday is a release and every day is a patch, so badges speak release engineering, with tiers from alpha through beta, rc and stable to LTS.
• Four tracks reward consistency, not perfection: days in a row, steady weeks, total days with notes, and how much of each year of life you cover.
• Firsts point you at features you might not know about, like replying to the email, adding a voice memo or filling in a day you missed.
• Collectibles live in the version number itself: round numbers, palindromes, your birthday, and a few secret ones.
• Every birthday starts a new album, so there’s always something new to collect.
• Nothing is ever taken away. A missed day is never called out, and there are no points, leaderboards or “at risk” warnings.
• If badges aren’t your thing, one “Show badges” setting turns them all off.

I didn’t know that I would have so much fun building my own journaling app! 🤩