Hipster ipsum (https://hipsum.co/) is (good|bad) if you want text :)
Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
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#72Tangentially, 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…
I wasn't aware that Lorem Ipsum was conceived with uniform distribution of word lengths in mind. I couldn't find any information about it on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
> The lorem ipsum text is typically a scrambled section of De finibus bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC Latin text by Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical, improper Latin.
Could you please provide source? I am curious now.
Alternate argument is that my version represents real actual text from real books :-), but to be honest, it is a tongue-in-cheek attempt.
Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
#73Tangentially, 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 like it, but isn't one of the points of lorem ipsum that few people understand the meaning of any word and therefore get distracted? I just like to sneak-read yours a lot.
Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
#74I recently launched http://joeschmoe.io, which is a similar API but for illustrated profile pictures. Did pretty well on product hunt and other places, so might be of interest here too :)
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's not forget http://placecorgi.com/ I wear corgi t-shirts, carry a little felt corgi keyring charm, have unicorgi stickers on laptop and tech bag both, my lunch bag is printed with corgis... there's a pattern here.
... do you have a corgi?
No. I live in a pet free building and also travel too much for the poor thing to be left alone.
I didn't mention five corgi plushies: one memory foam pillow and four Unicorgis. One pair of the Unicorgis are set to fly -- they had wings and the previous owner left hooks in the ceiling so it was pretty self evident what I needed to do...
Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos
#76Has there been some kind of relaunch? Service was unreachable last Friday.
We switched over from our old NodeJS backend to a new Go backend recently, and gave the website an overhaul as well, things were a bit shaky during the transition.
That NodeJS to Go definitely needs a write-up :-)
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#77How is something like this funded? Doesn’t this cost money to host?
Curious about this as well, newbiehere
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#78Earlier 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…
I wasn't aware that Lorem Ipsum was conceived with uniform distribution of word lengths in mind. I couldn't find any information about it on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum > The lorem ipsum text is typically a scrambled section of De finibus bonorum et malorum, a 1st-century BC Latin text by Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical, improper Latin. Could you please p…
"The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English." via the 'Why do we use it?' section on https://www.lipsum.com/
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#80Has there been some kind of relaunch? Service was unreachable last Friday.
We switched over from our old NodeJS backend to a new Go backend recently, and gave the website an overhaul as well, things were a bit shaky during the transition.
Any reason for the transition from the old NodeJS backend to the new Go backend? Did NodeJS hinder the performance in any way?