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Emojis are the new <blink>.


It’s actually worse because at least blink tags are confined to browsers. Now you have developers putting emojis in log statements for whatever reason.


You could probably do the same with the blink ANSI escape sequence if your logs are getting displayed in the terminal. Though I’d recommend you not to use that particular escape sequence...ever.


<blink>️️U+1F440</blink>

Apparently HN doesn't let you publish emoji? I thought we had UTF-8.


HN purposefully removes emoji:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20776571




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