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!
J'ai une requête nulle et pas du tout essentielle MAIS : en gros je sais qu'il existe la version anarqueer de l'emoji que j'ai en guise d'avatar, c'est-à-dire avec le bandana rose au lieu qu'il soit noir (jsp si j'suis clair mais il est tard demain j'ai partiel mon cerveau fond) parce que askip le bloc c'est pas qu'un truc d'antifa mascu muscu
Si quelqu'un a le fichier de cet #emoji je lui en serait reconnaissant à tout jamais merci que la paix soit sur vous et avec votre espr... ah non merde c'est la messe ça pardon
I am putting too much thought into how to find, compare, and compile the neo* #emoji variants. Legs, spider, devil snake legs, final form, eating legs, woozy, scream, junior, plead, woem, and halo are the ones I've found so far.
Tracking down creators and licenses is going to be so much work :neopossum_floof_sad:
facer que apareza na barra de suxestións o emoji(s) relacionado coa palabra que estamos a escribir
Requerimentos
Ir a Axustes, Ortografía, Suxestións e marcar a opción Mostrar suxestións de corrección.
Optativo, e recomendo, desactivar Corrección Automática.
Hai dous métodos, complementarios:
Método 1
Máis lento inicialmente pero en realidade abonda para o 99% dos casos, porque repetimos sempre os mesmos emojis. Se non sabes inglés pois é o método recomendado.
Imos a Axustes > Ortografía > Dicionario Peroal
Seleccionamos o Galego (ou Para todos os idiomas, da igual)
Abre unha pantalla onde abaixo prememos en Engadir Unha Palabra +
Onde pon Escribe unha palabra engadimos o emoji que queremos (co teclado). Exemplo: ☁️
En Atallo, engadimos a "clave" ou "palabra" que fará que se mostre a suxestión. Exemplo: "nub". Algo que non sexa moi restrictivo, así vale para nube, nubrado, nubosidade, cuberto, ...
e xa estaría! Imos a escribir algo nun cadro de texto de calquera aplicación e se escribimos "nub" veremos que na barra de suxestións aparece
Engades á man esa ducia de emojis que usas con frecuencia e xa estaría.
Método 2
engadimos o dicionario inglés experimental, que polo visto funciona mellor neso de suxerir emojis (eu non probei cos dous, fun directo a este).
podes engadir o de castelán se queres ou te apañas mellor que co de inglés, pero igual te lía máis, ti verás.
En _Idiomas e Disposicións*: activar o Galego e premer no seu nome para a) en Escritura en varios idiomas b) engadir o Inglés (ou o Castelán)
para que apareza a suxestión deberemos escribir a palabra en inglés que está relacionada co emoji. No exemplo proposto: "cloud"
Método 3 (hipotético)
que alguén teña xa un dicionario persoal feito e cho envíe para instalar 😬
isto podería ser unha publicación no blog 🤷♂️ ou un vídeo de peertube. Nah! 😅
Does anyone know where the :aneocat_bongo: (:aneocat_bongo:) #emoji originally came from? I assumed it was from @volpeon but it's not actually in the package. I want to make sure that I give credit to whomever made it.
🆕 blog! “Where you can (and can't) use Emoji in PHP”
I was noodling around in PHP the other day and discovered that this works: <?php $🍞 = "bread"; echo "Some delicious " . $🍞; I mean, there's no reason why it shouldn't work. An emoji is just a Unicode character (OK, not just a character - but we'll get on to that), so it should […]
I was noodling around in PHP the other day and discovered that this works:
<?php$🍞 = "bread";echo "Some delicious " . $🍞;
I mean, there's no reason why it shouldn't work. An emoji is just a Unicode character (OK, not just a character - but we'll get on to that), so it should be fine to use anywhere.
Emoji work perfectly well as function names:
function 😺🐶() { echo "catdog!";}😺🐶();
Definitions:
define( "❓", "huh?" );echo ❓;
And, well, pretty much everywhere:
class 🦜{ public int $🐦; public ?string $🦃; public function __construct(int $🐦, ?string $🦃) { $this->🐦 = $🐦; $this->🦃 = $🦃; }}$🐓 = new 🦜(1234, "birb");echo $🐓->🐦;
How about namespaces? Yup!
namespace 😜;class 😉 { public function 😘() { echo "Wink!"; }}use 😜😉;$😊 = new 😉();$😊->😘();
Even moderately complex Unicode sequences work:
echo <<<🏳️🌈Unicode is magic!🏳️🌈;
I've written before about the Quirks and Limitations of Emoji Flags. The humble 🏳️🌈 is actually the sequence U+1F3F3 (white flag), U+FE0F (Variation Selector 16), U+200D (Zero Width Joiner), U+1F308 (Rainbow).
Probable the most complex emoji has 10 different codepoints! It looks like this - 🧑🏾❤️💋🧑🏻
And it works!
$🧑🏾❤️💋🧑🏻 = "Kiss Kiss. Bang Bang!";echo $🧑🏾❤️💋🧑🏻[-1];
There are some emoji which don't work;
$5️⃣ = "five";
The 5️⃣ emoji is U+0035 (Digit Five), U+FE0F (Variation Selector 16), U+20E3 (Combining Enclosing Keycap). PHP doesn't allow variables to start with digits, so it craps out with PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected integer "5", expecting variable or "{" or "$" in php shell code on line 1
You also can't use "punctuation" emoji as though they were normal characters:
echo 5 ❗= 6;
And, while not strictly emoji, you can't use mathematical symbols:
echo 5 ≤ 6;
So, there you have it. Is this useful? Well, probably. It is easy to get lost in a sea of text - so little pictograms can make it easier to see what you're doing. If the basic ASCII characters aren't part of your native language, perhaps it is useful to make use of the full range of Unicode.
Does your favourite programming language support Emoji?
🆕 blog! “Use CSS to boost the font size of emoji with no extra markup”
I want to make emoji bigger than the text that surrounds them. At my age and eyesight, it can be difficult to tell the difference between 😃, 😄, and 😊 when they are as small as the text. Is there a way to use CSS to increase the font size of specific characters without having […]
This brings a lot of improvements and fixes, the most relevant being immediate persistence of settings and watching the settings file for external changes. To make this feasible also for restoring the history, a lot of work went into generating static emoji data that can be used efficiently (e.g. containing a hash table to find an emoji quickly).
BTW, this even works on #NFS, so if you have your home shared and you're running qXmoji on two machines as the same user, the history will auto-update in both instances 🥳
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