I recently ran across a project called Rustin Ipsum, which was built by an Iron Yard student in Washington, D.C. Scott Ross, the creator, explains his motivation1 (warning: if you haven’t seen True Detective, this won’t be as fun.):
There are plenty of Lorem Ipsum generators out there, but I couldn’t find any channeling that contemporary spirit of post-modern despair so perfectly captured in True Detective.
There was only one obvious course: build my own Rust Cohle Lorem Ipsum generator.
For a weekend project after two weeks of class, the result is very impressive2 Enjoy some auto-generated filler text:
World needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door. Sip Lone Star. This place is like somebody’s memory of a town, and the memory is fading. It’s like there was never anything here but jungle. Drag on Camel.
Great work, Scott. I’ll be using this often.
1. Read Scott’s blog post about building a True Detective text-filler generator on Medium.2. Head over to Rustin Ipsum and give it a try.
