Dev Journey — Badges UI, Tooltips, and Test Stabilization

2025-08-23

• #development
• #badges
• #accessibility

Today’s focus was on polishing the badges page and hardening our tests:

• Enlarged badge icons on the /badges/ page for better legibility.
• Displayed behavior badges alongside existing Streak, Spirit, and Word Count.
• Implemented accessible, CSS-only tooltips that show on hover/focus (no JS required on the page).
• Replaced a flaky snapshot test with explicit structural assertions.
• Added integration tests to verify tooltip markup and large-badge styling.

Why CSS-only tooltips? Simpler, more resilient, and still keyboard-accessible with :focus-within. This eliminated build-time instability seen with a previous page-level script.

What’s next:

• Consider subtle animations/arrow for tooltips.
• Extract tooltip styles into a shared partial if we reuse them elsewhere.
• Monitor mobile ergonomics and adjust spacing if needed.