I'm honestly surprised I haven't seen a placeholder service that serves up ads in the images. The service gets revenue, and the dev gets something that's obviously not a final product.
Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
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#62Looks like this is not the first service like this, but I'll be honest, I wasn't aware they exist! Haha!
This one might win the contest on beat name though. I feel like it's a "Doh!! Why didn't I think of that!" moment.
Really cool, great work!
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#63I'm honestly surprised I haven't seen a placeholder service that serves up ads in the images. The service gets revenue, and the dev gets something that's obviously not a final product.
Cool idea!
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#64Tangentially, I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon. http://neil.panchal.io/articles/quantum-lorem-ipsum/ https://github.com/neilpanchal/quantum-lorem-ipsum Edit: Created a Github repo
I feel like this misses the entire purpose of lorem ipsum. Good layout designers don't just want letters and spaces. They want letters and spaces that approximate the whitespace ratio of writing. Your version has only very long words and very short words and nothing in between. This feels like the telephone game version where all of the original intent has been lost and all that's left is a weak simulacrum in vaguely the same symbol space.
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#65I don't like the fact that it's /200/300, it should be /200x300. The slash makes it more difficult to read, i.e. in the example: https://picsum.photos/id/237/200/300 , it would be much easier to read and understand if it were https://picsum.photos/id/237/200x300 . Terrible decision.
It should be https://picsum.photos/id/237?w=200&h=300 , IMO.
oh, god, no! what an ugly, absurd and unnecessary over-engineering
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#66Tangentially, I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon. http://neil.panchal.io/articles/quantum-lorem-ipsum/ https://github.com/neilpanchal/quantum-lorem-ipsum Edit: Created a Github repo
I feel like this misses the entire purpose of lorem ipsum. Good layout designers don't just want letters and spaces. They want letters and spaces that approximate the whitespace ratio of writing. Your version has only very long words and very short words and nothing in between. This feels like the telephone game version where all of the original intent has been lost and all that's left is a weak simulacrum in vaguely…
This also misses that Lorem Ipsum is effectively gibberish for most people. It's impossible to get hung up on the content.
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#67How is something like this funded? Doesn’t this cost money to host?
Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
#68Tangentially, I got tired of Lorem Ipsum text and created Quantum Lorem Ipsum, now with 100% more physics jargon. http://neil.panchal.io/articles/quantum-lorem-ipsum/ https://github.com/neilpanchal/quantum-lorem-ipsum Edit: Created a Github repo
I feel like this misses the entire purpose of lorem ipsum. Good layout designers don't just want letters and spaces. They want letters and spaces that approximate the whitespace ratio of writing. Your version has only very long words and very short words and nothing in between. This feels like the telephone game version where all of the original intent has been lost and all that's left is a weak simulacrum in vaguely…
On the flipside, maybe this version better emulates (a subset of) technical writing? So if you're tuning the design of e.g. a book or thesis, this is more representative than actual Lorem Ipsum?
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like this misses the entire purpose of lorem ipsum. Good layout designers don't just want letters and spaces. They want letters and spaces that approximate the whitespace ratio of writing. Your version has only very long words and very short words and nothing in between. This feels like the telephone game version where all of the original intent has been lost and all that's left is a weak simulacrum in vaguely…
On the flipside, maybe this version better emulates (a subset of) technical writing? So if you're tuning the design of e.g. a book or thesis, this is more representative than actual Lorem Ipsum?
I'm going to draw a hard line and say No. There is no subset of writing that produces anything that looks like this.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
It should be https://picsum.photos/id/237?w=200&h=300 , IMO.
oh, god, no! what an ugly, absurd and unnecessary over-engineering
Ugly yes, over engineering? no it's what you would have done in PHP in the 90's. Doing the URL thing would need more work (hello .htaccess). Anyway...
Good points: It is semantically correct and self documenting. There is no resource called 300 nested under a resource called 200 so lets not pretend there is. The query string seems perfect for the job of providing size parameters. You can then extend this interface to take other factors you want to affect the image, and keep it backwards compatible. Function over form.