Ross Spencer<p><b></b></p><p><strong><b>File formats as Emoji: 0xffae</b></strong></p><p><br>by <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="u-url mention" href="https://digipres.club/@beet_keeper" target="_blank">@beet_keeper</a></p><p>tldr: <a href="https://emoji.exponentialdecay.co.uk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">emoji.exponentialdecay.co.uk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>File Formats As Emoji (0xFFAE or 0xffae) might be my most random file format hack yet. Indeed, it is a random page generator! But it generates random pages of file formats represented as Emoji.</p><p>The idea came in 2016 with radare releasing a new version that supported an emoji hexdump. I wondered whether I could do something fun combining file formats and the radare output to create a web-page.</p><p>Along came a spare moment one weekend, some pyscript, and bit of sqlite, et voilà. File Formats as Emoji (0xFFAE) was made a reality.</p><p></p> <p><i></i> </p> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/0xffae/" target="_blank">#0xffae</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/code/" target="_blank">#Code</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/coding/" target="_blank">#Coding</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/digipres/" target="_blank">#digipres</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/digital-literacy/" target="_blank">#digitalLiteracy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/digital-preservation/" target="_blank">#DigitalPreservation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/emoji/" target="_blank">#emoji</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/file-format/" target="_blank">#FileFormat</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/file-format-identification/" target="_blank">#FileFormatIdentification</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/file-formats/" target="_blank">#FileFormats</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/learning/" target="_blank">#learning</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/pronom/" target="_blank">#PRONOM</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/pyscript/" target="_blank">#pyscript</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/python/" target="_blank">#Python</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/skeleton-test-corpus/" target="_blank">#SkeletonTestCorpus</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/tag/teaching/" target="_blank">#teaching</a></p>