Show HN: Minecraft Ipsum, my first side-project ever

[lewisgodowski]

http://minecraft.gdwsk.com

I go to school at California Institute of the Arts for Music Technology, so programming and web dev and the likes aren't quite my forte. In the Music Tech program, we are required to take a couple programming classes (ChucK, Processing, Arduino), so I figured it's summer and I have plenty time to work on a side-project. I'm an avid Minecraft player, and, given the vast number of blocks and items in Minecraft, I decided to create a simple website to generate placeholder text (lorem ipsum dolor blah blah blah) using Minecraft words! I created the website using Bootstrap, with an external JavaScript file to generate the text. The site itself is hosted on Amazon S3 for the time being.

[simantel]

Cool project! Have you considered some sort of a selector that lets you choose how much text you want to generate? Generally you'll want more than a sentence of filler text.

[lewisgodowski → simantel]

Thanks! Yea, that'll be my next step forward. Because of the absurdly strange way I came up with of generating the sentences, I'm having a difficult time figuring out a way of doing that without completely re-writing my function. I'm sure I'll get that functionality working eventually, just need to learn more about JavaScript at this point in time.

[AndrewLuke → lewisgodowski]

A loop and an array is all you really need.

    for amount of lines needed:
        array.append = function call()

Then iterate over the results to display them. Not perfect, but will work without changing much.

[lewisgodowski]

Clickable: http://minecraft.gdwsk.com

[Pyrodogg]

This is hilarious. Next up, Minecraft Haiku's?

[lewisgodowski → Pyrodogg]

Haha thank you, maybe I'll add that functionality in!