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loving this, and we should all do more stuff because 'its funny' - would make the world a better place


Thanks! Glad you found it funny too! :)


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It’s transparent to me, weird.. I’ll have to look into this. Thanks for feedback :)


I’m so glad to hear such feedback! Thanks!


Ouch, Yeah appears pretty obvious. Will add some rounding to the sizes or similar


It’s made to be a gravatar fallback :)

The reason its not CSS is because this api generates the initials for you.

CSS is way faster, so I’d recommend that


> The reason its not CSS is because this api generates the initials for you.

It's been a while since I've written any CSS, but I'm pretty sure you can select first letters? Useful for drop caps, for example.


Absolutely, but it’s not that simpel, it’s made to be flexible and handle different logic. Not that it’s magic by any means, it’s fairly simple but you’d want to generate the initials on the server anyway, to acomplish similar results

For example, it takes first letter of first name, and 2 letters from last name if only two names supplied and desired length is 3.

However if 3 names are supplied, it uses a letter from each name.

It’s not magic, but doing it in CSS wouldn’t be easy, I imagine



Thanks for letting me know! I will stuff different languages over the coming months to better manage such things :) didn’t know that


However interest is subjective, and it’s obviously interesting to some, considering the traction it’s gotten.


I dont get it either :) Yes, that’s basically all it does.

I don’t think theres anything to it


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