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Author here! Hope you enjoy this piece & happy to answer questions and receive feedback.

Hello hacker friends! I wrote this. I hope you'll find it a little helpful and a little funny. Looking forward to reading your thoughts on the topic. Cheers.

Hi friends! Author here, happy to answer questions and comments. :-)

Author here! Happy to answer questions/comments. :-)

I assure you they are not empty words. I mean them, and I suspect those who choose to use the badges do too.

While I am wary of the messages coming out of corporations, I do believe it’s possible for them to be nice, at least in some cases. In my view the intention behind the gesture is a…

Thanks Jay! I strongly suspected some people would find the gesture meaningful but it’s nice to get confirmation on here. :-)

Hey Tim! Thank you for your comment. I did talk about brightening people’s day as a possible benefit on this thread, however there is a deeper aspiration behind the project which i…

You say seeing a badge like this on a website is just noise for you, fair enough. I simply have a different experience with this sort of thing. One example I used in another commen…

I see your point, thanks for the feedback. :)

You’re most welcome! Thank you for your comment, it made my day. :)

Can it mean more when someone who knows us intimately gives us a compliment? Absolutely. Can it mean less when it’s coming from a corporation whose primary intention is to receive …

Sent!

I agree that’s not always a wise thing to say. I disagree with the implication that it’s what I’m doing. I don’t believe @aflag was requesting an apology or that I’ve done somethin…

Yay, I'm glad you like it!

Hey Razengan! I agree a message like "You got this!" may not always be well received, especially by people suffering from a deep depression. Most of them are more neutral, or at le…

Yes, in part, the API is but not the underlying data (at this time): https://github.com/kindspeech/api

That's awesome! I'm going to reach out about getting my hands on some of those stickers if the offer is open. ;)

Hey DoreenMichele, thank you for sharing your story, helping that woman was indeed a very kind act in my book. However, I do believe there are other ways to express kindness as wel…

Hey FruityCoconut, I'm sorry this offended you. It was not my intention.

I'm sorry if the words sound empty to you. All I can say is when I place this badge in a GitHub repo's README or in my email signature, it's my way to wish well on the people who c…