I made a fake-cake generator for my 30th birthday(cakesy.com)
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I made a fake-cake generator for my 30th birthday
http://cakesy.com/8958cec4c
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I'm turning 30 tomorrow so I figured I'd make something birthday related. A friend of mine came up with the idea and I coded it all up. The frosting is generated dynamically using the PHP GD library and a lot of image convolution matrices. And if you're wondering, yes the web 2.0 logo and cheesy graphics are intentional. I thought it would be more fun this way.
Did you build it in CakePHP?
Happy Birthday!
Ha! I'm a day younger than you…so…there! or something…
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! http://cakesy.com/842f662be
i made something similar except with airplanes and cars
http://flylikeagsix.com/hackernews
http://flylikeagsix.com/hackernews
Apparently jokes are OK in this thread.
http://cakesy.com/86471d2df
(Surprised no one did this yet.)
http://cakesy.com/86471d2df
(Surprised no one did this yet.)
That's way too intellectual for me... I refuse to go to an art museum until they offer free wi-fi!
You need a new excuse!:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
http://www.lacma.org/visit/HoursDirections.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
http://www.lacma.org/visit/HoursDirections.aspx
Dang... Magritte, here I come...
Cartoon shows are vividly pro-consumption: Simpsons has beer and crusty burgers; Futurama has alcohol; Spongebob has Krabby Patty burgers. Though often joked about, they are always seen being enjoyably consumed. This makes the shows very appealing to a TV network, because they are very appealing to advertisers of consumables.
When viewing your website, I couldn't help but think how delicious some cake would be right now. So. Let adsense do its work, showing local cake-delivery bakeries that provide a web-customizable text service (assuming they exist - if not, there's a business there too.)
Also, do support unicode, as someone suggested, also for reddit-inspired workplace friday cakes, such as: ಠ_ಠ
When viewing your website, I couldn't help but think how delicious some cake would be right now. So. Let adsense do its work, showing local cake-delivery bakeries that provide a web-customizable text service (assuming they exist - if not, there's a business there too.)
Also, do support unicode, as someone suggested, also for reddit-inspired workplace friday cakes, such as: ಠ_ಠ
My web 1.0 (or perhaps web .9) cake generator is at http://www.cakemessage.com/
It's got the best in 1993 web UI technology.
It's got the best in 1993 web UI technology.
PS. I'm going to have to agree with the "most of the time is spent on making the frosting color look best" strategy!
Doesn't much like japanese text (Had to try it). Otherwise, nice job :) I like the chocolate one the best by quite a bit.
I made you a happy cake, just to show how much I liked it: http://cakesy.com/8a7d3b35a
I made you a happy cake, just to show how much I liked it: http://cakesy.com/8a7d3b35a
This is why I love the Internet. I didn't even think about different Unicode characters and symbols. I whipped up the entire site in 2 days (most of it was spent tweaking the different frosting colors) and haven't even put it through my regular barrage of tests. I'll try to get Unicode working tomorrow, it mostly has to do with the specific font I used. Maybe I can give a few more font-choices. Also, I could auto-size the font according to the length of text.
I try UTF characters in everything which displays text, especially when it's graphically manipulated. It's slightly amazing how few handle it, even if there's little reason not to (unless a library along the pipeline only reads ASCII).
I think it's just that most people are used to dealing with / have encountered C char arrays, and 8 bits per character just makes sense to programmers. 'Tis why I jump for joy when I hear about framework-X fully supporting UTF - IMO, they all should, from day one, but I realize it can sometimes be a lot of work, and is always a performance hit.
I think it's just that most people are used to dealing with / have encountered C char arrays, and 8 bits per character just makes sense to programmers. 'Tis why I jump for joy when I hear about framework-X fully supporting UTF - IMO, they all should, from day one, but I realize it can sometimes be a lot of work, and is always a performance hit.
You don't know how right you are. Google Web Toolkit has the most impressive support for Arabic, but it's ASCII only out of the box, even though it runs on Java, a thorough-bred Unicode language.
There's another issue with the "graphically manipulated" case - typefaces. There's no fonts that support every Unicode code point.
can't help myself.
http://cakesy.com/8f0f94220.jpg
http://cakesy.com/8f0f94220.jpg
How can you drop that which doesn't exist? There's no DB behind this site.
Are you saying the cake doesn't exist? That it's... a lie? Why would anyone lie about cake?
For that matter, why would anyone intentionally drop cake? That's a waste of good cake! Shame on you, dr_lego!
For that matter, why would anyone intentionally drop cake? That's a waste of good cake! Shame on you, dr_lego!
Aw, I would never really try to hack cakesy!
For whatever reason, I just found the statement "drop cake" hilarious. Nevermind it's not valid sql.
For whatever reason, I just found the statement "drop cake" hilarious. Nevermind it's not valid sql.
It's cakeql:
SELECT BOWL FROM CABINET FULL JOIN EGGS ON COUNTER WITH MIXER, FULL JOIN FLOUR ON COUNTER WITH MIXER, FULL JOIN SUGAR ON COUNTER WITH MIXER WHERE CHEF IS NOT NULL; UPDATE OVEN SET TEMP = F(450); INSERT INTO OVEN VALUES CAKE AFTER REMOVE FREAKIN_TRAY FROM OVEN WITH MITT; BAKE CAKE; REMOVE CAKE WHERE CAKE = BAKED; DROP CAKE; REMOVE CAKE WHERE CAKE ON FLOOR WHERE FIVE_SECOND_RULE = TRUE; CROSS APPLY ICING(RED) AS DECORATION; CUT CAKE; SELECT SLICE(LARGE) AS "PIECE" FROM CAKE AND EAT("PIECE");
SELECT BOWL FROM CABINET FULL JOIN EGGS ON COUNTER WITH MIXER, FULL JOIN FLOUR ON COUNTER WITH MIXER, FULL JOIN SUGAR ON COUNTER WITH MIXER WHERE CHEF IS NOT NULL; UPDATE OVEN SET TEMP = F(450); INSERT INTO OVEN VALUES CAKE AFTER REMOVE FREAKIN_TRAY FROM OVEN WITH MITT; BAKE CAKE; REMOVE CAKE WHERE CAKE = BAKED; DROP CAKE; REMOVE CAKE WHERE CAKE ON FLOOR WHERE FIVE_SECOND_RULE = TRUE; CROSS APPLY ICING(RED) AS DECORATION; CUT CAKE; SELECT SLICE(LARGE) AS "PIECE" FROM CAKE AND EAT("PIECE");
Are you just using regular files?
The only files I'm creating are .jpg files. The file name is a hash of the form values. Put in the same form values and you get the same .jpg file.
Very awesome. I couldn't resist: http://cakesy.com/810b350ac
I for one would like to see interoperability with http://store.makerbot.com/toolheads/makerbot-frostruder/fros....
Get a cake-by-mail shop integrated/affiliated ("Like this cake? You could be eating it. Click here to order.") and you might become rich.
No Hello, World! yet? Here you go... http://cakesy.com/81b0ff157.jpg
Awesome! I made my first cake:
http://cakesy.com/886ed73c0
The chocolate side-on shot of the cake makes for more realistic cakes from my trial. The head-on cakes' writing doesn't look real at all.
The chocolate side-on shot of the cake makes for more realistic cakes from my trial. The head-on cakes' writing doesn't look real at all.
Oh boy. I was wondering how long before the jokes started.
While we're at it, I'm pretty sure this one is obligatory: http://cakesy.com/886e854a5
The above example makes the text look too small though, IMHO. Maybe scale things up dynamically to fit the text to the available space a little better? Still, very neat toy.
The above example makes the text look too small though, IMHO. Maybe scale things up dynamically to fit the text to the available space a little better? Still, very neat toy.
Awesome idea about the auto-sizing of text. I will give it a shot tomorrow.
I've got this...
http://cakesy.com/85d2db719
http://cakesy.com/85d2db719
I can't help but notice the circles; they remind me of (the late) OpenSolaris logo.
Those aren't circles, they are zeros. I want some ones so I don't get a http://cakesy.com/8fcf958fc.
The cake is a lie.
First you will be baked. And then you will be cake.
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So is this the inevitable redditification of HN following the exodus from Digg to reddit?
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