SEEKING FREELANCER | UK | Remote, UK preferred

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(Modern) PHP web development - I have a project building a new PHP 7 API framework that integrates with my existing user management system and supports OAuth2. I'm looking for someone who can write clean, modern code following good coding practices and standards.

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Web design / UX - Looking for someone who can review the design/layout/UI of an existing website, make suggestions for improvements, and then potentially also make the necessary changes. Knowledge in HTML/CSS would be good, experience with SASS would be a bonus.

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Initial work would be limited to these projects, but there will be more work like this in the future. I'm operating as a Limited company, so will require a proper invoice etc.

Happy to provide more details via email: nkhn@fastmail.com

True, but it does give you a hint at least. I would have never guessed that this was a shrimp for example: http://whatmoji.com/?i=b65555fbf55380ec0970a060b2457527

Except so many of them are culturally specific, like the horn emoji on the front page has roots in postal systems (both in Japan and Europe). This page doesn't tell you that. Even this random website does a better job of giving context: http://emojipedia.org/postal-horn/

Well, Emoji are originally Japanese so you always have to keep that in mind.

The point is "what is this emoji?" Knowing emoji started in Japan still doesn't tell you what the emoji is or means!

Cool idea, this should work now: http://whatmoji.com/

edit: Looks like HN strips emoji so I can't link to it, but you can try it out by visiting http://whatmoji.com/TEXT_HERE!

You just need to encode the URL for HN to accept it

http://whatmoji.com/%F0%9F%8C%8D

Yes, it stores the list of emojis so that you can link to it. The text is never stored.

Are you concerned this might be a privacy issue? I could change it to only store searches on demand.

That was my concern at first, but I don't think it's an issue if it doesn't store the entire text.

The idea behind the site was that you would see an emoji on a website somewhere and couldn't figure out what it meant. So the main "use case" I have in mind is indeed someone copy/pasting them from somewhere else.

What would you like to do that would require a bank of emojis on the site itself?

A bank would be useful for general learning. i.e. when I went to the site just now, I didn't have a specific emoji that I needed to identify, but if there had been a 'bank of emojis' I probably would have wasted a few minutes of my day reading about what they mean...because I frequently have no idea what emojis mean...

And by wasted I mean I wouldn't have been working. Not a jab at your project :)

I see - I just added links to lists of most emojis to the header: http://whatmoji.com/

I hope this helps you waste a few minutes! :)

I'm not really up on how text rendering works; what's it mean if I can see some of those, but not others? e.g. I have Rocket but not Helicopter; not Steam Locomotive but Railway Car and High-Speed Train; Taxi and Automobile but not their Oncoming variants; Toilet, Water Closet, and Bath but not Shower.

Is there something I need to install, or something? I'm on Win7 with up-to-date Chrome and Vivaldi, and they're both the same way.

You would need to have an up-to-date font that contains glyphs for these specific emoji - your computer gets an integer key (a code-point) and needs to have a scalable image in its lookup table to substitute for it. I have no idea how exactly to get a new one for Windows, sorry :-\

And yes, I know I could have just looked it up in many different ways.

But any programmer knows that an elaborate solution that takes a day of programming is a lot more fun than a 1-minute fix that just solves the problem at hand!

> But any programmer knows that an elaborate solution that takes a day of programming is a lot more fun than a 1-minute fix that just solves the problem at hand!

Don't put that on your CV/resumé

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