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Sigil
- inetsee 13y agoA possibly unfortunate choice of name. I clicked the link expecting Sigil, the Epub editor.
- mharrison 13y agoWas going to comment the same... the author should consider renaming their project
- kabr 13y agoI feel like the OP's project is more aptly named than the EPub editor of the same name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_(magic) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_(magic)
- GravityWell 13y agoAptly named or not, a google search for sigil shows the epub editor as the first result. The project has been around a long time: https://code.google.com/p/sigil/ https://code.google.com/p/sigil/
- ryderm 13y agoIs there any kind of ratelimit on https://sigil.cupcake.io https://sigil.cupcake.io?
- Titanous 13y agoNot currently. If it becomes problematic, we'll add limits.
- jroes 13y agoI've always loved http://robohash.org/ http://robohash.org/, which solves a similar problem.
- andrewgjohnson 13y agoIt's always disappointing to me when I come across something that is a better version of an unfinished side project of mine. Well done.
- danielsiders 13y agothanks! let us know if you have any suggestions, it's definitely still a work in progress.
- andyl 13y agoFor Ruby developers, there is https://github.com/chrisbranson/ruby_identicon https://github.com/chrisbranson/ruby_identicon
- Nate75Sanders 13y ago"Sigil is a deterministic identicon generator originally created for Cupcake." ok... ...click over to Cupcake to see what's up and can't figure out exactly what it is before the page break...where I find that: "Cupcake is part of the growing Tent ecosystem." ok... "Tent is a protocol for real time communication and personal data storage. Tent is decentralized like email so you can communicate with users on every Tent host. There are no proprietary APIs or central authorities that can limit users' speech or apps' functionality." now we're getting somewhere -- also, Cupcake appears to be $5/mo for more info: https://tent.io/ https://tent.io/ Despite reading HN almost every day, it's still really hard to keep up with stuff.
- danielsiders 13y agoThe copy on Cupcake is intentionally vague. Most of the apps powered by Tent don't exist or haven't been released yet, but will start coming out soon. We've been working on a Dropbox-type app that's powered by Tent, for example.
- graue 13y agoI gotta respect the Tent.io crew. After trying their Twitter clone last year (made HN front page a couple times around July/Aug 2012), I was ready to write off the whole thing as a failure — didn't think they were building things anyone really needed. But they keep iterating and making new stuff. Who knows, maybe I was wrong. And Sigil looks legitimately cool regardless of how the projects that spawned it work out.
- Aldo_MX 13y agoI thought this was about the epub editor... https://code.google.com/p/sigil/ https://code.google.com/p/sigil/
- dangle 13y agoo snap: https://sigil.cupcake.io/12345678987 https://sigil.cupcake.io/12345678987
- sixdimensional 13y agoHmm.. just random pondering, but it's basically like a really simplistic QR code for a unique value. I wonder if there's a use case for having some sort of a "sigil"/gravatar scanner app for mobiles.
- russellsprouts 13y agoUnfortunately, the scanner would need to reverse an md5 hash, if I understand correctly. This is not impossible, but not very practical.
- sixdimensional 13y agoPresumably the md5 hash could be used to look up a value from a web service endpoint running on the site hosting the gravatar. Not sure what value this would bring, but who knows.
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- dustingetz 13y agohttps://sigil.cupcake.io/dustingetz https://sigil.cupcake.io/dustingetz took me a very long time to realize that the thing that gets hashed is the URL's path.
- estebank 13y agoI'm giggling like a teenager at this https://sigil.cupcake.io/tests https://sigil.cupcake.io/tests Oddly appropriate.
- joeframbach 13y agoHow does this differ from Identicon? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon