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isoprophlex
TIL there is an unofficial HTTP status code 420, "Enhance your calm"... lol
dspillett
Introduced by twitter IIRC. When used it generally means you've hit some sort of rate limit. 429 "Too Many Requests" is usually more appropriate.

The code had a previous (now deprecated and possibly no more official when it was in use) hence the gap in the list of official codes.

benatkin
Cute mapaches. I’ll have to keep this handy for International Raccoon Day on April 12.

416 is my favorite so far.

Y_Y
Mapache Http Server
ergl
https://http.cat/ is another good one
Y_Y
> El domini .cat està dissenyat específicament per promoure la cultura i la llengua catalana a nivell global.

The domain .cat is designed specifically for the promotion of Catalan language and culture at a global level.

cinntaile
It's a shame that they are allowed to monopolize a domain extension like this. A more sensible approach would have been to have this requirement for .catalan instead of the generic .cat .
ergl
The rules are quite loose: as long as you make your content available in catalan, they'll be happy to have your site hosted in the TLD
exikyut
This is super cute, but unfortunately it's currently both misconfigured and broken. Very easy fixes though.

Firstly, it's eyebrow-raisingly slow. A quick network check shows everything is capped at 100kbps download. For PNG images that translates to a hitch-y 2-3 second pause.

Secondly, the slowness is amplified to the point of "this needs fixing" by the total lack of caching. Everything pauses every time the image loads.

Thirdly,

  $ wget -O- https://httpraccoons.com/jpeg/100 | md5sum
  ...
  Length: 530755 (518K) [image/jpeg]
  ...
  9a7aa269111ca315277bbec79bfab5c1

  $ wget -O- https://httpraccoons.com/100 | md5sum
  ...
  Length: 530755 (518K) [image/png]
  ...
  9a7aa269111ca315277bbec79bfab5c1
It's changing the mimetype but serving the same image!

Critically, besides these issues, this is perfect and fit for purpose :)

hiyer
The wepb images are smaller and load pretty fast.
mozzyfx
Hey, creator here! Thanks for the feedback. For the first point, I can't reproduce this slowness. On the third point, and I'm mostly asking for thoughts here: I'm thinking of removing the "false" formats, but I wonder if they come with any upsides?
pfsalter
Very weird that it's using paths instead of the Accept header to change the content type, but otherwise pretty cool
mozzyfx
This is mine, thanks for sharing! I'm having a look at all the feedback in this thread :)