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Re: HTTP Cats

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Post by jama211 » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 12:03 PM UTC

Now this is what the internet was made for

Re: HTTP Cats

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Post by bayindirh » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 1:14 PM UTC

flexagoon wrote: post #69

silverwind wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes is a bit more practical

Yes, but opening that and searching for "411" is much slower than just typing "http.cat/411" into the URL bar

Also relieves a stress a bit with a funny cat photo. There's also http.dog to the same effect.

Re: HTTP Cats

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 1:21 PM UTC

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Re: HTTP Cats

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Post by rireads » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 1:38 PM UTC

taherm789 wrote: post #3

Love http and love cats

Real

Re: HTTP Cats

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Post by shmeeed » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 1:59 PM UTC

nkrisc wrote: post #15

Is the picture for 303 meant to be the device from Heisenberg’s thought experiment?

Obviously

Re: HTTP Cats

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Post by shmeeed » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 2:00 PM UTC

mshroyer wrote: post #47

Illustrating "451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons" with Ray Bradbury made me laugh

Thank you for explaining the reference!

Re: HTTP Cats

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 2:03 PM UTC

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Re: HTTP Cats

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Post by sph » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 2:04 PM UTC

Also, for the frontend devs out there:

https://placecats.com/

https://placekittens.com/

Re: HTTP Cats

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Post by tanelpoder » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 2:16 PM UTC

Since we are talking cats here, let me plug my CatBench vector search playground app, intended to learn and demonstrate in a visual way how (PyTorch + ViT) image embeddings and (Postgres) vector search work together with your regular OLTP transactional data. I implemented a toy version of a purchase recommendation system based on “cat customer” image similarity and “cat fraud detection” building block too:

https://github.com/tanelpoder/catbench

Also, a simple browser-only page for visually demonstrating what embeddings/vectors physically are, for explaining this to database & storage folks:

https://tanelpoder.com/catvector/

(Initial load of the vector heatmaps may take a few seconds when you click on a pet type)

Re: HTTP Cats

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Post by aniforprez » Sat, Jan 31, 2026, 2:18 PM UTC

701mk wrote: post #62

aniforprez wrote: post #55

I still do this day mourn the old httpstatus.io or whatever it was domain that got acquired a few years back and became completely useless. This one endures and I love it. This one stays bookmarked but at least the MDN page on status codes now pops up as the first useful link when you search for "http status codes"

httpstatus.io is actually a good tool that I've been using for over 3 years now so I think it isn't that domain that got acquired?

Yeah I did some mild research and the domain I'm thinking of was httpstatuses.com which was acquired by WebFX and turned useless. jkulton revived it at https://httpstatuses.io/ which they document in their blog https://jkulton.com/2022/reviving-httpstatuses/