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Discord Emoji

Note: This is written for those using Python 3 and discord.py, so if you're using something else please reference the relevant documentation for your language or library if you choose to use this as a general reference.

On Discord, there are two different emoji types:

Unicode Emoji
Custom Emoji

Each needs to be handled differently, as while unicode emoji are just simple unicode characters, Discord custom emoji are special objects available only in Discord, belonging to a specific Discord guild and having their own snowflake ID.

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

Making a PDF + Bootable ISO Hybrid Polyglot

If you've not seen my résumé, that is what this post is about, and you should probably look at it first to get an idea of what's happening.

A Tale of Two Files

PDF and ISO9660 are two very different file formats. PDF is actually a surprisingly human-readable (but, sadly, not very human-writable) plain-text format, technically descended from PostScript. PDF is not very forgiving on changes, as it stores tables of offsets to various elements, so it is very difficult to insert or remove content manually without going through a robust PDF manipulation library.

ISO9660 is a disk filesystem, meant to be written once and read many times on many different kinds of hardware. As it is sector-based, it expects data structures to be at particular absolute offsets.

On OS X

On OS X Mavericks, Apple ships Vim version 7.3 with -clipboard. Here's the gist from running [/usr/bin/vim --version on Mavericks][10.9] (and [the same on Mountain Lion][10.8]). Shame on you Apple!

If you [use Homebrew][brew.sh], you can get Vim with +clipboard by running:

brew install vim

Here's a gist from running [/usr/local/bin/vim --version][brew].

	print ("bot v1.0")

	now = os.time()
	home_dir = "/home/matthias/"

	function send_msg_cb(cb_extra, success, result)
	if success then
	return
	end
	end

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