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I made a fake-cake generator for my 30th birthday

145 points| chime | 15 years ago |cakesy.com | reply

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[+] chime|15 years ago|reply
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.
[+] pak|15 years ago|reply
Did you build it in CakePHP?
[+] IdeaHamster|15 years ago|reply
Ha! I'm a day younger than you…so…there! or something…

Happy Birthday!

[+] mahmud|15 years ago|reply
Woo, 30 year olds unite! :-)
[+] randomwalker|15 years ago|reply
Apparently jokes are OK in this thread.

http://cakesy.com/86471d2df

(Surprised no one did this yet.)

[+] kleiba|15 years ago|reply
That's way too intellectual for me... I refuse to go to an art museum until they offer free wi-fi!
[+] 8ren|15 years ago|reply
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

[+] minsight|15 years ago|reply
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.

[+] minsight|15 years ago|reply
PS. I'm going to have to agree with the "most of the time is spent on making the frosting color look best" strategy!
[+] Groxx|15 years ago|reply
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

[+] chime|15 years ago|reply
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.
[+] aw3c2|15 years ago|reply
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.
[+] devmonk|15 years ago|reply
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.

[+] chime|15 years ago|reply
Oh boy. I was wondering how long before the jokes started.
[+] nessence|15 years ago|reply
I can't help but notice the circles; they remind me of (the late) OpenSolaris logo.
[+] pbhjpbhj|15 years ago|reply
So is this the inevitable redditification of HN following the exodus from Digg to reddit?
[+] caf|15 years ago|reply
Awesome... now do it in the browser with Javascript ;)
[+] chime|15 years ago|reply
It shouldn't be hard at all. But it won't work as inline images, email attachments, or upload to website. So it's utility will be very marginal.