alt Hacker NewsAn interview with an Apple emoji designer
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> We mapped almost 1:1 to SoftBank’s set, though Apple chose to omit a few of the more risqué ones.
Which are these risqué emojis mentioned here? I don't think I have ever seen any that are even slightly graphic, which is probably why all the emoji slang conventions have spread like fire (Aubergine, Peach, etc.)
There is still no walnut emoji. Blonde-haired, black-skinned pregnant man? Yes. Walnut? No.
Modifying the Universal: a seminal piece on emoji’s and possibly why/how from a humanities perspective: https://youtu.be/ZP2bQ_4Q7DY?si=TIl4Zhs2X2ZgBJfY
If the author is reading this, the hyperlink to the book in the first paragraph is broken. Looks like it's attempting to direct you to an absolute url that was meant to be relative.
<a href="https://books/face-with-tears-of-joy">I just finished Keith Houston's previous book _Empire of the Sum_, a history of calculators, I'll be reading this next.
So cool to get the background story on this. I remember adding the Japanese keyboard here in the US just so I could get access to emojis.
Are the emojis on Apple (macOS, iOS etc) vector graphics these days?
Why does that site feel like I am reading typed text on paper?
Off topic: Perhaps it's just me, but I have a pet peeve about emojis in anything formal. Even before LLMs, I instinctively took a repo less seriously when README.md had emojis in every section. And now LLMs have popularized that style, it's the first signal for me to vibe-detect AI repos.
I do use emojis. I love them, actually, but only in message apps.