I wouldn’t say I am exactly a cat person. I do have a cat, but I’m not really more into cats that I am into dogs. I don’t completely share all of the cat related crazyness that’s been around the internet for years now, but I enjoy it as something cool, funny and cute at different times.

Cats have also become a meme on their own, so in those moments of tension or boredom both at work and home, a gif of a cat going batshit crazy serves as a relief from the awful pits of common life. At least for a while. Then you start looking for more photos, and boom, there goes your day.

Introducing Random Cats

So here’s my contribution to this colective hysteria. This website is now cat friendly with the help of a little WordPress plugin that I wrote and published in about 10 minutes. I know this is a complete turn from my usual work, more oriented on workflow improvements than in productivity killers, but sometimes we all need to let go for a while.

For those interested in technicalities, right now the plugin is just an idea that uses the Cat API to get random gifs, but since the API key generation doesn’t seem to work fine at the moment, I may change it (or not) in the short term. That’s why I haven’t tried to publish it in the official plugin repo yet.

Now go here and keep hitting F5.