Want some cool new #emoji for #Pride month? I've got a very interesting set to recommend today, the Yingmotes set by @mynotaurus
To be totally honest, I hadn't heard of #yinglets until yesterday. They apparently come from a web comic called Out-of-Placers. They appear to be some kind of mythical rat-bird, but you'd have to ask someone more knowledgeable for details.
What makes the Yingmotes set so interesting to me is that while you can just download and use the 17 emoji where the yinglet is holding a flag as-is, or customize them with your favorite SVG editor, the repo also has instructions and code put together to make it easy to customize the yinglet. I've never seen an emoji set with a helper script that lets you specify the colors of the fur, tongue, eyes, etc of the character in them then generate a whole library of emoji with that palette. It's an incredibly cool idea.
You can make a set unique to you so your scrunkly lil creatura is the one waving those pride flags even if your level of artistic talent is best suited for customizing config files.
One tip for instance admins who want to use them: don't use the emoji resolution, get the full size ones instead. The emoji resolution may sound fine at 128×128 but it can create problems when scaled again in reactions or MFM.
Changed my #OpenBSD writing-dedicated box from running #cwm to #i3wm -- I like cwm, but it's still a bit too mousey for my taste.
I also changed all of my fonts (both xterm and i3/i3status) to be bitmapped (the "fixed" font), so everything is looking REALLY crisp.
Maybe I'm getting quite crochety, but at this point, I think I'd much rather have a lower res screen with crisp bitmapped fonts than a crazy high-res screen and vector fonts.
The only thing I'm missing is #emoji. My i3status looks like
cpu 31% | load 0.80 | mem 9% | dsk 13.4% | net Gallifrey 82% | chrg 89% 0.00W | Sun 2024.05.26 06:42 AM
instead of
cpu 05% | 📈 load 0.29 | 28.5% | disk 59.7% | Gallifrey 67% | Sun 2024.05.26 06:42 AM
Funny little #emoji mixer I just came across: https://neomojimixer.com/
I just wish emoji reactions will come to Mastodon at some point... I always feel sad that users there can't see all the great emojis I use here on #Akkoma :neocat_cool_fingerguns:
It would be nice to give emoji more meaning this way. If also custom emoji are supported, then the "boost appreciated" #emoji can be filtered on, for instance. And #❓ can be alternative for #AskFedi for instance.
First toot was a single 'loose' top-level toot, second one above to the #emoji thread, but no emoji showing in #Mastodon at all in both of these. And opening the link to your toot, leads to a login page on NodeBB.
I had assumed that #emoji which were unique to an instance were most likely created by someone on that instance. That's definitely not the case given how few are unique to is-a.wyvern.rip, the solo instance for Volpeon... creator of the original neofox and neocat.
I finally did it and moved to a more appropriate "home realm" for a #FreeBSD enthusiast. Thanks @stefano for offering this!
Moving followers worked flawlessly, restoring all my settings was pretty quick, but of course all my old toots are left on https://techhub.social/@zirias 🙈
So I guess I'll introduce myself here by writing a little thread, adding a few of my works that someone might find interesting. But first a bit of "who am I":
I'm a "professional" software architect/developer (mostly #dotnet platform in the day job), FreeBSD hobby-admin and ports committer, #C64 fan (and occassionally coder and even musician), and apart from computers also interested in music (playing a few instruments myself), traveling, cooking, sometimes sports, sometimes politics ... but probably won't toot about any non-technical stuff (or, very very rarely).
Let's start with my most recent opensource dev-project:
#qXmoji is an #X11#emoji#keyboard. Although it uses #Qt for its GUI, the mechanism to "type" emojis is pure X11. This means any X11 client can receive them (whether that client can correctly display them is an entirely different issue 🙈) ... not even #XIM awarenesss is needed.
The mechanism to inject fake "emoji keyboard events" is quite hacky and dirty, but it works!
This brings several improvements, mainly in the build system, but the major change is support for localization, with translated Emoji names imported from #Unicode#CLDR. I added a German translation, see screenshot. Once again, I'd appreciate more translations, the process to translate is documented here: https://github.com/Zirias/qxmoji/blob/master/TRANSLATE.md