Author Archives: Pete Nelson

While I was out…

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Pete Nelson

While my wife and I were recently on vacation in Iceland/UK/Ireland, I noticed Geert van der Ploeg made a nifty Unicode String Generator that uses our API to generate random unicode strings for your testing enjoyment. Well done!

We saw some of the Game of Thrones cast at our hotel in Belfast!

Insert obligatory pic of my Bacon Ipsum shirt in front of Big Ben.

And enjoying some 21yr old whiskey at Bushmills

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A year of bacon

Posted on June 8, 2012 by Pete Nelson

Bacon Ipsum went live June 7th, 2011, just as a silly idea that I had. Now a year later, I’m amazed at how often it’s still being used and the ton of other lorem ipsum generators it has inspired.

This is where most people say they have big plans for the future, but not us. There’s only so much you can do with some the shuffle function and some string concatenation. However, your home for meaty filler text is not going anywhere.

To celebrate, I think I’ll go eat some bacon. 😎

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Oh the horror

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Pete Nelson

Bacon Ipsum got first billing in the Novelty section of Coding Horror’s recent blog post about lorem ipsum.

It should be in its own category: Delicious

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Bacon Kickflip

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Pete Nelson

Jason M. brings us skateipsum.com. Gnarly.

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Pasta Ipsum

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Pete Nelson

Spaghetti Carbonara is a pasta dish made with spaghetti, delicious bacon, eggs, and cheese.

Pasta Ipsum is, well, I think you know by now. 🙂

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Banners

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Pete Nelson

Chris McCoy (who did the Bacon Ipsum WordPress plugin) made some cool animated banners for us. Thanks Chris, very nice!

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jQuery Plugin

Posted on March 18, 2012 by Pete Nelson

I whipped up a little Bacon Ipsum jQuery plugin that uses our API to generate some meaty goodness. When you’re mocking up a design, now you can use this plugin in your HTML rather than static text.

You can reference the plugin from our server or download it and use it locally.
http://cdn.baconipsum.com/api/jquery-BaconIpsum.js

The easiest way to use it is just to call the method with no options.
$('#placeholder').BaconIpsum();

You can also pass in options.
$('#placeholder).BaconIpsum({ type:'all-meat', paras:5, start_with_lorem:false }); $('#placeholder).BaconIpsum({ type:'meat-and-filler', sentences:1, start_with_lorem:true });

type: either ‘all-meat’ or ‘meat-and-filler’
paras: number of paragraphs
sentences: number of sentences (this overrides paragraphs)
start_with_lorem: true or false to start the text with ‘Bacon ipsum dolor sit amet’
no_tags: true or false, pass true to not wrap the return value in <p> tags
set_value: sets the element value rather than appending

There’s a sample page on GitHub with some example code.

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South by South Bacon

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Pete Nelson

My feet and voice are still recovering from SXSW Interactive but I had a great time. There’s a huge stack of web development notes and slides for me to go through and some R&D to improve my development skills.

I also met a ton of people that use Bacon Ipsum on a regular basis. Someone even thought it was my startup and wanted a pitch. Hehehe…

Some of the folks that stopped to get a picture with me.