Codem Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum but for Code
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Codem Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum but for Code
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Re: Codem Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum but for Code
#2No description of what’s happening (on mobile anyway), but it looks like the variables are being replaced?
Re: Codem Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum but for Code
#3The "lorem ipsum" identifier names are foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, etc.
Re: Codem Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum but for Code
#4No description of what’s happening (on mobile anyway), but it looks like the variables are being replaced?
Identifiers too. It's using the babel.js compiler so the approach is pretty straightforward: https://github.com/pomber/codem-ipsum/blob/master/index.html
Re: Codem Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum but for Code
#5The "lorem ipsum" identifier names are foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, etc.
There's even a fancy umbrella term:
Re: Codem Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum but for Code
#6Lorem Ipsum but for javascript
Re: Codem Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum but for Code
#7Hey, I made this. I needed dummy but syntactically valid code to show in demos like this one: https://github.com/pomber/code-surfer/blob/code-surfer-v2/re...
Re: Codem Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum but for Code
#8The name is kind of misleading. I expected it to generate random lines of code, instead of just replacing identifiers with lorem ipsum.
Re: Codem Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum but for Code
#9The name is kind of misleading. I expected it to generate random lines of code, instead of just replacing identifiers with lorem ipsum.
For whatever it's worth, I didn't share your expectation. The real lorem ipsum is just a fixed load of text, after all - describing something as "lorem ipsum but for code" shouldn't necessarily imply any functionality.
Re: Codem Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum but for Code
#10Why code in faux Latin when you can use the real thing: http://users.monash.edu/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html