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Gmailtail – Command-line tool to monitor Gmail messages and output them as JSON

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143 points c4pt0r | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 00:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.244s | source
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love2read ◴[03 Jul 25 05:15 UTC] No.44451846[source]▶
What tool makes these readme’s for new github repos that are bulletpointed lists with features, always prefixed by an emoji?
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1. sunrunner ◴[03 Jul 25 12:28 UTC] No.44454306[source]▶
I think this trend has been around for a while now (it started to become more noticable for me at least a couple of years ago).

At first there seemed to be a correlation between how 'cool' the project was and the number of emoji, but now it seems like it's as expected as just having a README itself.

I've definitely seen _more_ decorated READMEs, and I can't help but feel like there's an inverse correlation between emoji count and readability.