Every design tool, CMS theme, and Figma mockup leans on the same trick: when the real words aren't ready, you fill the layout with meaningless text so you can judge shape instead of copy. That filler is lorem ipsum, and I always assumed it was a static blob you paste from a website. Then I built a generator that makes it fresh in the browser, and it turned out to be a genuinely nice little engineering problem.
You can play with the live version here: https://dev48v.infy.uk/solve/day27-lorem.html
Why fake text at all
When you're designing a page, the copy is still being written, the CMS is empty, the API isn't wired up. But you still need to see how the layout breathes: line length, paragraph rhythm, where headings land, whether a card overflows on the third line. Placeholder text fills that gap, and it's deliberately unreadable so nobody starts editing the message instead of the design. Typesetters have used "greeking" like this for centuries, long before the web existed.
The passage is scrambled Cicero
