It's extremely weird to see this site on HN! I built this site in 2014 -- and haven't touched it since. I wasn't a developer then, I was a product manager, and this was a "look, hiring managers, I can build things" side project (it worked, I've been a dev since 2016).
Despite being about 40% broken I keep the site up because it's still reasonably functional and there are a surprising amount of sites that now depend on having hotlinked the patterns directly from this domain. If it ever degrades to the point of being actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty close), I'll shut it down. Until then, it's a fun relic from the internet of a decade ago.
Just to answer a question upthread (and I 100% agree this should be on the website), the patterns are all CC-BY-3.0, meaning it just requires attribution and any pattern can be used for free.
Despite being about 40% broken I keep the site up because it's still reasonably functional and there are a surprising amount of sites that now depend on having hotlinked the patterns directly from this domain. If it ever degrades to the point of being actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty close), I'll shut it down. Until then, it's a fun relic from the internet of a decade ago.
Just to answer a question upthread (and I 100% agree this should be on the website), the patterns are all CC-BY-3.0, meaning it just requires attribution and any pattern can be used for free.