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Re:Show HN: Open-source certificate from GitHub activity on Thursday January 22, 2026 @09:53PM (#46727779)
Which browser are you using?
Re:Show HN: Open-source certificate from GitHub activity on Thursday January 22, 2026 @09:53PM (#46727778)
Good idea!! I'll implement a better input handling for it I'll accept the entire github url, and i'll also trim the input Thank you for the heads-up!
Re:Show HN: Open-source certificate from GitHub activity on Thursday January 22, 2026 @09:52PM (#46727766)
Nothing! everything is running under a cloudflare free tier
Re:Show HN: Open-source certificate from GitHub activity on Thursday January 22, 2026 @09:50PM (#46727752)
For some badges, it is indeed easy to cheat. However, for badges like merging a PR into a repository with 10k or 100k stars, it's much harder to spoof

Edit: same for badges related to creating a repo that reaches x amount of stars and helpful comments on issues

Re:Show HN: Open-source certificate from GitHub activity on Sunday January 18, 2026 @07:15PM (#46673578)
yea, it really is a challenge! currently, I have a sorting working to fetch the most relevant badges. I only show the top 3 to keep the certificate clean
Re:Show HN: Open-source certificate from GitHub activity on Sunday January 18, 2026 @11:23AM (#46669081)
Great idea. totally doable for sure

Show HN: Open-source certificate from GitHub activity

https://certificate.brendonmatos.com

I built this as a small side project to learn and experiment, and I ended up with this!I used a subdomain from my personal portfolio, and everything else runs on free tiers.The project uses Nuxt, SVG, Cloudflare Workers, D1 (SQL), KV, Terraform, and some agentic coding with OpenAI Codex and Claude Code.What started as a joke among friends turned into a fun excuse to build something end to end,...

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