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Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code
- thehodge 16y agoI know theres a similar service with placeholder images but everyone loves kittens right?
- petercooper 16y agoCongratulations on your entry to the HN1K club ;-)
- yread 16y agoYou could use this one for code: /\_/| =0-0= \'I'| |<|,,\_ |[>,,/,\ |[|,\_,,) ((J(=__/
- stcredzero 16y agoWhat about LOLCODE? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE I suppose, the corpus of the lolcat meme could be harvested as an alternative to Lorem Ipsum. Actually, such sites would have entertainment value of themselves.
- mikeleeorg 16y agoUsing LOLSPEAK as an alternative to lorem ipsum would be hilarious. At least, to a subset of people. Coincidentally, I had created a lorem ipsum generator made from the nonsensical names of tech startups back in 2007. I haven't updated the names in years though, but maybe I should. (Apologies for seeming spammy; that's not my intent at all. Just thought I'd share.) http://bizthoughts.mikelee.org/the-web-20-lorem-ipsum-generator.html http://bizthoughts.mikelee.org/the-web-20-lorem-ipsum-genera... Wouldn't be hard to tweak that for LOLSPEAK at all.
- alex_c 16y agoThat is pretty brilliant. As a wise man once said, "Guba simpy bebo, zecco plazes moola gpokr."
- mikeleeorg 16y agoThanks! It amuses me to see where it's creeped up too: http://www.google.com/search?q=Eskobo+goowy+manjam http://www.google.com/search?q=Eskobo+goowy+manjam
- simcop2387 16y agohttp://www.lorizzle.nl/ http://www.lorizzle.nl/ It's been tweaked for "Gangsta speak"
- Groxx 16y agoThat's awesome. I'll have to hang onto that site for my next lorem use :) Though I don't know if I want to know what this means: "we gonna chung a funky fresh"
- anthonyb 16y agoYou can also do Loorum Eepsoom - paste Lorem Ipsum into a Swedish Chef translator. Makes me laugh, anyway.
- kingkool68 16y agoI'll see your LOLspeak non-spammy link with one of my own, a lolspeak translator written in JavaScript http://www.txt2lol.com/ http://www.txt2lol.com/
- relequestual 16y agoThis will now be my "code coming soon" cat =]
- rbanffy 16y ago/*_/| =0-0= \'I'| |<|,,\_ |[>,,/,\ |[|,\_,,) ((J(=_*/ This one is valid C/C++/ObjC, Java, PHP, CSS...
- Stormbringer 16y agoBrilliant!! This was actually what I was expecting. But it makes me think - are there any code editors that you can literally just drag pictures in, or put in urls and it replaces them with pictures? I could be stuck in some IDE ghetto and not even know about these things.
- Groxx 16y agoI prefer this out-of-code: ／l、 （ﾟ､ ｡ ７ l、 ~ヽ じしf_, )ノ (works best non-fixed-width, and requires Japanese characters) I keep it here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/363028/ascii%20images.rtf http://dl.dropbox.com/u/363028/ascii%20images.rtf (I should really add more...)
- JonnieCache 16y agoI had been using pictures of cucumbers culled from flickr up until this point. Good call.
- sudont 16y agoThe less distracting version: http://placehold.it/ http://placehold.it/
- eam 16y agoOr http://dummyimage.com/ http://dummyimage.com/
- kingkool68 16y agoplacehold.it and dummyimage.com are one in the same. Source code is available at dummyimage.com
- 100k 16y agoYea! Kitties! I like it. cf: http://xkcd.com/231/ http://xkcd.com/231/
- alex_c 16y agoIt feels so strange to upvote a link to kitten images on HN and actually have it be on topic.
- nicpottier 16y agoNice, tiny suggestion for improvement. Allow links to end in .jpg. There are some cases where that's a nice to have. Otherwise, hilariously useful.
- pavel_lishin 16y agoIs this incredibly slow for anyone else?
- famfamfam 16y agoMark here, I threw placekitten.com together this weekend after a journey on a train in which I could not access placehold.it and few weeks of jokes about the concept with colleagues. I was not planning on posting to HN, as I thought that a kitten-meme related site might not be the most appropriate (looks like the wisdom of the crowd has decided otherwise). I can't claim that the server will stand up, so I would refrain from using the site for anything critical (not sure why you would need/want to), or that caching is entirely correct (I'm sending far-future expires, but I'm sure that I could improve given some time). Glad that the internet likes kittens though. Confirmed a suspicion I had.
- jedsmith 16y agoIs a followup to Silk next, with 1,000 strokably-soft kittens? (I'm kidding. I love Silk, thanks for making it.)
- famfamfam 16y agoIt also appears that I should have taken that extra couple of hours to host the site somewhere other than a small mediatemple server, you're all hitting HTTP client limits at the moment.
- stcredzero 16y agoIf you could somehow gather all the lolcat meme texts together to use as an alternative to Lorem Ipsum, that would be hilarious!
- joshmanders 16y agoAwesome work, and I love your icons too dude.
- sahillavingia 16y agoJust wanted to say: thanks for prettifying up the web with your Silk icons!
- alanthonyc 16y agoThanks, it's really cute. Any way we can have puppies?
- jdp23 16y agoAnd according to the weather report, it's snowing in hell right now. Looks like the week's off to a good start!
- aantix 16y agoAlong the same lines: for all of the Rails developers out there, I wrote a gem called "Sex It Up" that downloads and caches public domain images of famous artwork and sculptures. Definitely improves the look of any prototype. https://github.com/aantix/sex_it_up https://github.com/aantix/sex_it_up
- rudd 16y agoWhile I wait for the site to load, I figured I'd comment with my own placeholder-cat experience. A site I worked on was taking a while to get me the actual images, so I took to Pixelmator and fixed myself some LOLcat placeholders. People loved it, except for one of the QAs, who said it was going to give her nightmares.
- ericnakagawa 16y agoI applaud your effort. ;)
- rayboyd 16y agoI'll get downvoted to oblivion for this, not that I care. But what the hell is this doing at the top of HN.
- argv_empty 16y agoTrying to melt a web server, I think.
- city41 16y agoIt's serving as a reminder that HN is changing.
- ryanjmo 16y agoHonestly, it seems really relevant to me. The idea is great, a lot of people will end up using it and it has a cute/wow factor. It also servers as a reminder that the Internet loves kittens and other ridiculous things. It is important to not forget this general principle and to keep it in mind when designing your product. People are ridiculous; remember to use that to your advantage.
- Eliezer 16y agoAAAAAHHHHHHH there's pictures of kittens at the top of HackerNews!
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- patriciomolina 16y agoI can't believe this is actually true...
- axod 16y agoIf ever there was proof needed to show just how far HN has fallen... Perhaps time for me to move on.
- jxcole 16y agoI know it's easy to be negative about kittens because of the whole lol cats thing, but a service which provides free, sizable, placeholder images that are more than just gray boxes is actually pretty useful. Remember the days when people used to use "blah blah blah" for all of their text before the copy was in? Now we use Lorem Ipsum. These kittens may well be what we do for photographs in the future.
- Legion 16y agoAgreed. This is something someone might find useful in a project they're working on. Unlike any Techcrunch or Gruber post. If HN were my personal pet project, that would be my link litmus test. "Is this something that might be useful info for making something, and not just 'news' to jabber on about?" Might be too restrictive at first blush, but that is what I come here for, not to read "news" stories that are posted everywhere else too.
- JonnieCache 16y agoI agree. This (or a similar tool) is set to become a genuinely useful part of my web development toolkit. If it used random CC images from flickr, rather than kittens, I wonder if there would be so much objection. If you let the /b/tards' love of kittens forever bond the "kitten" symbol in your brain indelibly to the "idiocy" symbol, you are letting the /b/tards win. They are just mammals. (Kittens, not /b/tards.) However, it probably doesn't warrant the #1 spot.
- jefe78 16y agoI see no kittens.... Using Chrome and thoroughly disappointed.
- axod 16y agoAm I the only one who absolutely detests cats? They're evil irritating virmin IMHO.
- timinman 16y agoGreat! Maybe server-side cache the images so they only need to be generated once?
- code_duck 16y agoI'd like to have bindings for various languages, to be able to use it like placeholder=new Kitten('random');
- sharkbrainguy 16y agoHere's javascript, the other languages are left as an exercise. function Kitten(width, height, color) { var img, g, w, h; w = parseInt(width, 10); h = parseInt(height, 10); g = color ? "" : "g/"; img = document.createElement('img'); img.src = "http://placekitten.com/" + g + w + "/" + h; img.width = w; img.height = h; return img; };
- ajaimk 16y agoWasn't it a goal of Hacker News to NOT have kittens at the top of the page?
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- relequestual 16y agoI've been WAITING FOREVER for someone to make this! =D
- relequestual 16y agoErrr,why has anyone downvoted this? =s
- cubtastic71 16y agoThat's awesome as our dev team here has a folder full of FPO kitties as we call them. Nice to see Front End folks think alike!
- msarnoff 16y agoNow someone needs to write a proxy that replaces all images on a site with placekittens, à la Upside-Down-Ternet (http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html) and Kittenify (http://www.reload.me.uk/kittenify http://www.reload.me.uk/kittenify).
- gerwitz 16y agoI just learned of Placekitten and had to drop everything and write bookmarklets: http://hans.gerwitz.com/projects/placekitten.html http://hans.gerwitz.com/projects/placekitten.html I didn't know about Kittenify, but they have better code. Though Placekitten has nicely curated images. A marriage is inevitable.
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- NoSalt 16y agoGENIUS
- briandeweese 16y agoi think a better name would have been loremkitten.com
- HaloZero 16y agoCould each dimension (at least popular ones) contain multiple images? Like serving placekitten.com/200/100 is one of three or four random images?
- jankassens 16y agoThat would avoid caching, an option would be an optional suffix like placekitten.com/200/100/2
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- GrandMasterBirt 16y agoIts awesome but there is only one feature I request: Add an ability to send arbitrary parameters at the end which will be used in the uniqueness calculation to generate a unique photo. This way I can have 10 identical kitten photo sizes next to each other each with a different picture for 10x the cuteness.
- rriepe 16y agoCool idea! My co-founder and I used to use pictures of Olivia Wilde as placeholders. It started with just one and then became a sort of tradition. Kittens are cool too, though.
- MatthewDP 16y agoFree Kitten Wallpapers: http://placekitten.com/1920/1080 http://placekitten.com/1920/1080 or http://placekitten.com/1280/1024 http://placekitten.com/1280/1024 http://placekitten.com/1024/768 http://placekitten.com/1024/768 etc.
- ringm 16y agoAnd in a few months they will all be replaced with goatse...
- raminf 16y agoA couple months ago I ended up spending good money on iStockPhoto looking for the right kitten picture to put in my app's 404 page. If only I had waited.
- mathnode 16y agoKITTEH!
- jwb119 16y agoThis is some sort of bizarro Erlang Day, right??
- simonhamp 16y agoAnother stroke of awesome!
- tomelders 16y agoRecently I've been thinking of a career change. But this, surprisingly, is the first time I've smiled about web development in a long time.
- tastybites 16y agoSomebody should make one for pictures of corporate stock art. You know, the glass skyscraper shot, the white-guy-wearing-glasses-standing-over-laptop, the empty board room with leather chairs, etc...
- defroost 16y agoThis is actually something that I would use. I always need dummy images to use as placeholders for layouts. Sometimes I'll use some of my digital images, but then I'm dealing with 300 DPI 15 megapixel images that need to resized in Photoshop, which is kind of a hassle. And as a cat lover, and fan of good photography (am a sucker for nice B&W images) this is a win-win option. Bookmarked.
- kingkool68 16y agohttp://dummyimage.com http://dummyimage.com is your friend :)
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- ittan 16y agoMeh, 404s need to be fixed though ;)
- mkr-hn 16y agoMore kittens to waste time at work with: http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/cat/ http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/cat/ And I guess you could see if they'd let you use some of their pictures. :)
- chadcf 16y agoI plan to combine this with the jQuery konami code plugin for lots of fun.
- pacomerh 16y agoFor a second it felt like Digg in here, people talking about content degradation. The idea was fine, just a placeholder nothing more.
- roryokane 16y agoIt appears that using the /g/… URL variation gives one black-and-white pictures, and leaving it out gives one color pictures, but it would be nice if you would just say that on the home page, rather than leaving us to experiment and figure it out for ourselves. Leaving out the explanation might be excusable if two sample links on the homepage just led to color and black-and-white versions of the same kitten picture, but that isn’t the case.
- ulf 16y agoThe Kitten-Color-Clock: https://gist.github.com/849093 https://gist.github.com/849093
- zwieback 16y agoI work on a headless embedded system - what should I do?
- B0Z 16y agoAm I the only one who checked if "placepuppy" was already registered after seeing this?
- rdl 16y agoA long time ago, I used to use intentionally-obscene or otherwise offensive text and images for placeholders, lorem ipsum text, variable names, etc., on the theory that this would prevent that content from ever shipping. It only took one violation for this theory to be discarded. Luckily, the recipient was fairly cool :)