Emoji Edition

May 14, 2017

I wrote most of this in a car on Friday, but I ran out of time to add screenshots and actually hit publish. Oops! Here's a Sunday version of my Friyay series!

This week was all about Emoji and I wanted to share some of my favorite Emoji resources!

The Power :zap: and Responsibility :sweat: of Unicode Adoption :sparkles:

Katie McLaughlin's{: target="_blank" } RubyConf AU 2017 - The Power :zap: and Responsibility :sweat: of Unicode Adoption :sparkles:{: target="_blank" } presentation is deep dive into Emoji. If you want to understand the history and see how Emoji scales on different hardware platforms then Katie's talk is a fun adventure.

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Emoji Cheat Sheet

Emoji Cheat Sheet{: target="_blank" } has been my goto Emoji search for several years. The website is great for looking up Emoji short codes on websites like GitHub or Slack, when I can't otherwise find them.

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From English to Emoji

If you have ever wanted to translate from English to Emoji then emoji-translate{: target="_blank" } is for you. The service allows you type in a sentence and then the service does its best to translate the words into Emoji.

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GitHub Emojis API

The GitHub Emojis API{: target="_blank" } is a great place to check for the latest Emoji updates when the other tools haven't been updated in a while. I wish more tools leveraged this GitHub API.

Emoji Support in Linux

After building my dashboard{: target="_blank" } a few months ago, I soon noticed that my Emoji posts were not showing up as I expected them to. After some research, I stumbled on the fix via Make Emoji Work in Linux{: target="_blank" }. The trick is to install the Symbola font and then everything just worked for me.

Bonus: Emoji Homepage :eyes:

Since I'm both a day late in publishing this article and I missed updating last week, I decided to throw Emoji Homepage :eyes:{: target="_blank" } in as a bonus. This tool is another spin on the classic Emoji lookups.