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Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos

#81

I 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.

https://picsum.photos?id=237&w=200&h=300 would be the simplest way to do it. Any url rewriting on top is syntactic sugar.

I'm surprised it hasn't been written this way from the start, with the url rewriting on top. I don't know much about Go but in the "good old days" we would use apache to do the http stuff, including url rewriting, and {insert moudly language here} to just use the params it was given by the web server. It didn't matter if the url was rewritten for aesthetics or it used query string params. You could even run the same script from the command line. Magic!

Nowadays it seems like the front-end languages like to get their hands dirty in the url parsing for better or for worse. Often worse IMO. The application layer should be dealing with business logic, not http transport. Again, this just my (slightly dated) opinion.

Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos

#83

Tangentially, 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

It's incredible.

I feel like after reading just a few words my eyes glaze over, but its still English. Even if I jump around, its all proper grammar nonsense.

Thank you!

Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos

#84

I'm personally partial to PlaceKitten[1] though around halloween I will sometimes switch it up with PlaceZombie[2] This one looks nice in that you wouldn't be embarrassed if it goes live since the images are generally nice looking but part of the appear of YAPHS (Yet Another Placeholder Service) is that it is really obviously a placeholder so you catch it before it goes live. [1] https://placekitten.com/ (warning: co…

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Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos

#85

Tangentially, 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

This is my favourite https://www.bobrosslipsum.com/

Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos

#86
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... 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...

How quirky!

Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos

#87

I'm personally partial to PlaceKitten[1] though around halloween I will sometimes switch it up with PlaceZombie[2] This one looks nice in that you wouldn't be embarrassed if it goes live since the images are generally nice looking but part of the appear of YAPHS (Yet Another Placeholder Service) is that it is really obviously a placeholder so you catch it before it goes live. [1] https://placekitten.com/ (warning: co…

placekitten inadvertently led to one of my favourite commit messages: "Increase kitten resolution" :)

Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos

#88
This seems to be built on top of the unsplash API. That is of course ok, but does it provide any relevant additional functionality?

You can literally use https://source.unsplash.com/random/800x600 (with or w/o the dimension) and get the same result, one level less abstract.

Meanwhile, filter() in CSS provides both greyscale and blur with way more power.

I like your homepage - but what does this add to my workflow?

Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos

#89

This seems to be built on top of the unsplash API. That is of course ok, but does it provide any relevant additional functionality? You can literally use https://source.unsplash.com/random/800x600 (with or w/o the dimension) and get the same result, one level less abstract. Meanwhile, filter() in CSS provides both greyscale and blur with way more power. I like your homepage - but what does this add to my workflow?

This service isn't built on top of the Unsplash API, in-fact, it predates it.

Re: Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos

#90
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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.

It is literally gibberish, for everyone.
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