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All Things Emoji 🦄

✨🍎 On macOS, use Cmd + Ctrl + Space to bring up the emoji picker. 🍎✨

Or try the FREE 🚀 Rocket app, which lets you use emoji shortcodes (like :cat:) right on your machine.

Where user input is permitted, try an emoji. --Brie

Does that input field accept emoji?

One thing to keep in mind when testing this is that there are a few different levels of support for emoji:

  • The thing can be made entirely of emoji
  • The thing can include emoji
    • the thing can include emoji but can't begin (or end) with emoji
  • the thing can't include emoji at all
    • the error message is emoji-aware
    • the error message is not emoji-aware

GitLab

You can use emoji all over the place! A few favorites:

Passwords

In 2019, I conducted an incomplete survey of support for emoji passwords on popular websites.

Fifty-two (52%) percent of the websites studied allow a password to be completely comprised of emoji.

Is it a bad idea to use a password that contains (or is completely comprised of) emoji?

🤷 It depends!

I did not test whether accounts with emoji-full passwords experience trouble with 2FA, password resets, mobile login, receiving password hints, et cetera.

  • Maybe don't do this for anything mission-critical.

Password Generators that Support Emoji

Miscellaneous

Suggestions for emoji in commit messages

Several folks have thoughts on this.

Utilities are better than thoughts!

Up and running with gitmoji-commit-hook

This requires npm so there's that. Anyway:

npm install -g gitmoji-commit-hook

In the root of whatever repository you want to use gitmoji-commit-hook in run:

gitmoji-commit-hook --init
  • 👍 Emoji in every commit.
  • 👎 This is an interactive tool so it will slow you down.

Mashing up Emoji

As of December 2020, the Emoji Kitchen has 14,000 combinations available.

Browsing to https://emoji.kitchen, will redirect you to @emojikitchen.

https://blog.google/products/android/feeling-all-the-feels-theres-an-emoji-sticker-for-that/

Emoji Combos

💃🏻🌺🦄🎭

🍒🍄🌈🦋🦄🍰🎨🎀✨

  • Aesthetic Emoji
    • ✨🍄🌱
    • 🍵🌵🍐🍈🌿🍀🌳
    • 💎💙🌊💦🌧🐟
    • 👜☕🕰🤎📜✒️✌🏽🧸🚪🧺🎻🥥🌰🏹⏳

On busier days, I create an issue to track what I want to do that day (or for the rest of that day). I use one of these as the title:

  • 🌻🍯🍋 Magical Monday 🍋🍯🌻
  • ✨🔭🌙 Terrific Tuesday 🌙🔭✨
  • 🍏🍓🥝 Wonderful Wednesday 🍓🥝🍏
  • 💌🗺️📎 Tranquil Thursday 📎🗺️💌
  • 🌈​🦄​🦋 Fantastic Friday 🦋🦄​🌈

Beyond

Custom Emoji for Slack (or whatever)

Open Source Emoji

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