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by partdavid 357 days ago
It strikes me as very much a current aesthetic in younger companies or smaller startups, maybe highly influenced by Notion. No one makes a list or page or calendar invite in my current company without choosing an emoji for it.
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It was cool until 2022. Then LLMs started injecting these emoji everywhere and it became the chief marker for code/doc smell.
It never caught on but I always liked setting the jumbo header images on Notion docs to creepy, unsettling pictures from Unsplash.

Need to write a document about converting a Rust project to Typescript? A picture of an abandoned warehouse full of expressionless baby doll heads fits perfectly.