File formats as Emoji: 0xffae
tldr: https://emoji.exponentialdecay.co.uk
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.
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.
Along came a spare moment one weekend, some pyscript, and bit of sqlite, et voilà. File Formats as Emoji (0xFFAE) was made a reality.
![Vincent van Gogh [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/skull-with-a-burning-cigarette-150x150.jpg)
