I have just released a new website: badgestore.dev. The aim is to have a place where you can store arbitrary badges, and update them programatically.

I previously had a similar project: LOCCounterBadge, in which you could provide a repo, and it would count the lines of code, and display it out as a badge. Give it a webhook and it would keep updating the badge as you pushed code.
However said project was quite cumbersome to use. You would need to set up a deploy key (if it was private), and a webhook for each of your projects.

badgestore.dev solves this problem by providing badges generally instead of tied to a repo. This allows you to set up a CI pipeline like github actions to count your lines of code (or other task), which sends a PUT request to the API, updating the badge.

These last weeks I have been working on a benchmark of different REST frameworks, with the constraint that they are capable of generating OpenAPI documents by annotating code. The github repo can be found here

Some motivation first; At work we have an Apache Solr backend, containing documents that are shown in our front-end applications. These documents contain sensitive registry data, and therefore need to be anonymized before reaching the front-end client. We therefore need to have a thin layer in front of our Solr server, that makes sure only data that we actually are allowed to show out is shown.
I wanted to see which alternatives were out there, and which one was the best to achieve a balance between performance, and ease of writing code.

For the past couple of months I have done a complete redesign of the blog, separating front-end and back-end completely, and rewriting it to use Svelte. In addition, I have added some new features. In this post I want to discuss the following:

• Svelte and Sveltekit
• Rewriting the blog front-end
• Adding new features
• Aliasing
• Dynamic menus
• SEO
• Docker

I recently made a Lines of Code badge publishing solution, whose purpose was to take a git project, count its LoC, and show the image out to the user in the form of a github badge.
This led me into the thought process of which web framework would be the most capable to do the following

• Display a picture out to the user
• Execute shell programs safely from API calls
• Simple to use

In the end I ended up choosing Python with flask, which seems to get the job done, and I wish to in this post explain my thought process.