Lightning Talk: How Emoji Changed My Life
summary
Claims that emoji became part of Unicode after proposals around 2000 and wide push by vendors and that emoji population now totals about ~1,200 emojis with five skin‑tone modifiers and sequence composition via zero‑width joiner sequences. Shows practical workarounds: Ruby strings and a gem for emoji, a MiniTest emoji adapter, and the need to specify MySQL charset to store them. Notes surprising specifics (1999 origin, hot dog requested top emoji) and concrete examples of where emoji change meaning and tooling.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 0:08RUBY CONFERENCE Lightning Talk: How Emoji Changed My Life
- 0:48TEXT
- 1:34History
- 2:11Adding an Emoji requires a LONG formal process
- 2:22HOT DOGS!!!!
- 2:45Equity
- 2:57Diversity
- 3:08UNICODE 9.0 38 candidates
- 3:39Code Review
- 3:55Someone said TDD is dead
- 4:09# is a variant of comment
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