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A tool for creating custom emojis for Slack, highlighted by Simon Willison.
A user reports that their Claw assistant now uses emojis to communicate status updates, such as reading a message, thinking, or working on a task, likely as part of a recent update.
A developer investigates why footnote backlink glyphs render as emoji in RSS readers, explores Unicode variation selectors (U+FE0E and U+FE0F) for controlling text vs emoji presentation, and discusses the broader challenges of variation selectors for web content.
The author shares their experience building a small flow matching image generation model trained on Apple emoji images, describing the initial failed approach and the successful pivot using RGB channels, residual blocks, and attention.
An interview with Ollie Wagner, one of Apple's first emoji designers, who recounts the design process, collaboration with SoftBank, and the unexpected cultural impact of the original Apple emoji set.
Mojito is a tool that lets you quickly search for any emoji or symbol in seconds.
A blog post recounting a bug where inserting adjacent multi-byte emoji caused a splice in a CRDT library, splitting a surrogate pair and silently breaking collaborative editor synchronization.