PlaceBear Reviews

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PlaceBear mentions (2)

• Show HN: Placesloth.com – generate placeholder images of sloth

  Hey all, Last week I had to make a couple of test pages and turned to one of my favorite sites to fill it with some imagery: https://placebear.com/ There's a pretty large amount of sites like this, but none seemed to be serving the superior animal: sloths. So I hacked this together quickly over the weekend. It's definitely ugly code and an ugly approach, nothing prevents this from going OOM, it'll probably fall... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• What are some beginner C# projects for Web Dev?

  Basically take sites like https://placekitten.com/ and https://placebear.com/ where you can pass in sizes in the url like so:. Source: over 1 year ago

Lipsum mentions (16)

• English to Latin translation requests go here!

  These words come from Lorem Ipsum, dummy text used by graphic designers to showcase a font or typeset, rather than distract the reader with the text itself. It looks like Latin because it comes from De Finis Bonorum Et Malorum ("on the limits of good and evil"), one of Cicero's most lengthy works of Latin literature. Some of the words may be true to the original Latin, but it is designed to say nothing as many of... Source: 12 months ago

• First Afghan and Halal bakery opens in Henrietta

  I bet it was lost in translation. Looks like a copypasta from https://lipsum.com/. The reference to not just PageMaker, but Aldus PageMaker is a clue to how long it's been around. The site has a number of other issues, too, but it's still better than third-party sites which exist only to drive traffic to delivery services or their POS. Source: 12 months ago

• document I found that seems puzzling to me. Lots of repeated words and seems encoded

  Yeah it's dummy/greeking text. You can read all about it here: https://lipsum.com/ it has a fascinating history. Source: about 1 year ago

• I booted up mobile discord only to be met with a latin text about the costumer and pregnancy.

  Also fun fact, you can generate it on sites like this. Source: about 1 year ago

• Gave my two weeks notice and boss wants me to take on additional work

  I think that the OP should write the manual, interspersed with actual content but mostly filled with lorem ipsum that appears to be written text but would actually require it to be read rather than flipped through. It's what books/newspapers used as props have when it's not a means of communicating anything to the audience. Wasting time doing the useless manual will take away time from productive activities. Source: over 1 year ago