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"Sigil is a deterministic identicon generator originally created for Cupcake."

ok...

...click over to Cupcake to see what's up and can't figure out exactly what it is before the page break...where I find that:

"Cupcake is part of the growing Tent ecosystem."

ok...

"Tent is a protocol for real time communication and personal data storage. Tent is decentralized like email so you can communicate with users on every Tent host. There are no proprietary APIs or central authorities that can limit users' speech or apps' functionality."

now we're getting somewhere -- also, Cupcake appears to be $5/mo

for more info: https://tent.io/

Despite reading HN almost every day, it's still really hard to keep up with stuff.

The copy on Cupcake is intentionally vague. Most of the apps powered by Tent don't exist or haven't been released yet, but will start coming out soon. We've been working on a Dropbox-type app that's powered by Tent, for example.

I gotta respect the Tent.io crew. After trying their Twitter clone last year (made HN front page a couple times around July/Aug 2012), I was ready to write off the whole thing as a failure — didn't think they were building things anyone really needed. But they keep iterating and making new stuff. Who knows, maybe I was wrong. And Sigil looks legitimately cool regardless of how the projects that spawned it work out.

I've always loved http://robohash.org/, which solves a similar problem.

A possibly unfortunate choice of name. I clicked the link expecting Sigil, the Epub editor.

Was going to comment the same... the author should consider renaming their project

I feel like the OP's project is more aptly named than the EPub editor of the same name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_(magic)

Aptly named or not, a google search for sigil shows the epub editor as the first result. The project has been around a long time: https://code.google.com/p/sigil/

It's always disappointing to me when I come across something that is a better version of an unfinished side project of mine.

Well done.

thanks! let us know if you have any suggestions, it's definitely still a work in progress.

I thought this was about the epub editor...

https://code.google.com/p/sigil/

Hmm.. just random pondering, but it's basically like a really simplistic QR code for a unique value. I wonder if there's a use case for having some sort of a "sigil"/gravatar scanner app for mobiles.

Unfortunately, the scanner would need to reverse an md5 hash, if I understand correctly. This is not impossible, but not very practical.

Presumably the md5 hash could be used to look up a value from a web service endpoint running on the site hosting the gravatar. Not sure what value this would bring, but who knows.

https://sigil.cupcake.io/dustingetz

took me a very long time to realize that the thing that gets hashed is the URL's path.

For Ruby developers, there is https://github.com/chrisbranson/ruby_identicon

I'm giggling like a teenager at this https://sigil.cupcake.io/tests

Oddly appropriate.

How does this differ from Identicon? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon

Is there any kind of ratelimit on https://sigil.cupcake.io?

Not currently. If it becomes problematic, we'll add limits.

o snap: https://sigil.cupcake.io/12345678987

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