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CSS Creatures

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When the content doesn't load (for whatever reason) the page only shows that ad... Which looks way too much like the actual content for my taste.

Twitter's rate limit has the site down at the moment unfortunately.

I accidentally clicked on the ad because the content failed to load and the default behavior is to have the ad centered on the page with similar styling as the rest of the page...

I just added a fix to keep the ad from jumping. I've also disabled it if the site is being rate limited.

It's currently down due to rate limit problems.

Unfortunate that the script checks the http response code, yet the server returns 200 status for an error message...

They look like the characters in Dumb Ways To Die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw

Are there any examples without using Twitter?

Here's a live version in the mean time

https://codepen.io/bennettfeely/pen/tfbCo

Cute!

Reminds me of Tabby Cats. This is my default new tab at work so things like 'HN' do not pop up. I also use it for password generation in the scenarios where you are setting up an admin login for someone.

The thing is that Tabby Cats have got me using their project every day and even recommending it to folks, so see what you can do to get your lovely characters as equally sticky in people's lives.

http://tabbycats.club/cat/u634sb

I am really annoyed by websites that require you to have social media accounts to function

The main point of the project was utilizing the Twitter Search API in an unconventional way, by parsing tweets sent to a specific account and looking for keywords and colors. All the code is up on GitHub.

https://github.com/bennettfeely/csscreatures

Yeah, the bubble is unprecedented. Like was it really hard to just put a textbox on this very website?

come on man, the point from their perspective is to generate traffic ofc

at least one static example would be nice?

I haven't received anywhere near the amount of traffic I'm getting right now and I thought Twitter's Search API rate limits were more relaxed than they apparently are.

This is from before I recently updated the site, I'm working on getting updated examples on CodePen.

https://codepen.io/bennettfeely/pen/tfbCo

Can we get a version that doesn't require twitter just to use?

Here appears to be a few of the creatures, from back in 2013: https://codepen.io/bennettfeely/pen/tfbCo

This is a fun idea. Can you do more complex shapes for the bodies / heads?

Is it because i am on mobile that I don't see anything?

Apparently whatever API it’s using is rate limited.

hugged to death?

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