What is picbed?

PicBed is a simple image hosting repository, essentially a folder of pictures stored on GitHub that anyone can link to from their own Markdown files, blog posts, or documentation. Instead of uploading the same images to every project or website, you can reference the pictures here using a public URL and they'll load automatically. The way it works is straightforward. The repository contains image files organized in folders. To use any picture, you take its file path and prepend it with a jsDelivr CDN URL, which is a free service that delivers files from GitHub quickly to browsers worldwide. You then drop that URL into any Markdown document as an image link, and the picture displays inline when someone reads the document. The README includes a concrete example showing exactly how to format the link and what the result looks like. This would be useful for bloggers, developers writing documentation, or anyone who works in Markdown and wants a reliable place to host images without setting up their own server or paying for a hosting service. For instance, if you write blog posts on GitHub Pages or contribute to open-source projects, you could store your screenshots and background images here and link to them from multiple places. The repository also curates links to free image and emoji resources, sites like Unsplash for photos, UI Gradients for background images, and several emoji reference sites. These appear to be the sources where the images in the collection originated, and they double as a handy reference list for finding visual assets. The project leans entirely on jsDelivr's public CDN, which is free but comes with the usual tradeoffs of relying on a third-party service. The README doesn't go into detail about usage limits, reliability guarantees, or how often new images get added.