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Seems like a hell of a lot of engineering effort for something that could easily be replaced by a gradient...

• bytematic 7y ago
  This describes at least half of all programming efforts
• tiborsaas 7y ago
  It's a good exercise to test these technologies and how to run things at scale. A real image from third party is valuable since gradients don't have onload events for example.
  • AstralStorm 7y ago
    An image gradient then. 1 px wide perhaps, or high. Few problems resizing it (even on client) and it should be reusable.
    • tiborsaas 7y ago
      I think the point is not to get away with the scaling problem. Here's one service I used in a project's development mode: https://dummyimage.com/2500x2000/000/09f.png&text=HackerNews https://dummyimage.com/2500x2000/000/09f.png&text=HackerNews In the production build I changed it to the real host.