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
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. 😎
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
Spaghetti Carbonara is a pasta dish made with spaghetti, delicious bacon, eggs, and cheese.
Pasta Ipsum is, well, I think you know by now. 🙂
Chris McCoy (who did the Bacon Ipsum WordPress plugin) made some cool animated banners for us. Thanks Chris, very nice!
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 });
There’s a sample page on GitHub with some example code.
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.
This is Fred. She likes speck and wanted it added to Bacon Ipsum, so we did.
Clyde the boxer (a rescue dog) is also a fan of Bacon Ipsum. However, he’s also a fan of every other type of food, so this isn’t saying much.
