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0xffae

0xffae is a project developed to visualize the information used by PRONOM to identify file-formats using emoji.

0xffae might be used as a whimsical diversion during the course of file-format identification training, or you might find other uses for it.

Ideas and pull-requests welcome.

Technology

builder by Richard Lehane is the most mature component exporting information about PRONOM in one place, and providing access to the skeleton-suite.

radare2 first released an emoji export in 2016. It is a powerful hex editor, unfortunately I don't have a lot of excuses to work with hex at present and so I am not as familiar with it as I would like. Folks interested in this demonstration of what is a narrow-band of radare's functionality may be interested in looking into it and its sibling tools further.

pyscript is an open source platform for running Python client-side. Pyscript separates many of the concerns of software installation, privacy, and security into something between only you and your browser. I relish the opportunity to explore it further.

Background

The project was first conceived of in 2016 but sat dormant on a server due to a lack of sophistication implementing things.

2025 brings pyscript and an opportunity to use it to familarize myself further with the technology and also finally write myself a random page generator.

Random page generation

The script here should be pretty flexible if you'd like to create your own random page generator. There are easier ways than using a database so you might ignore that part but the database also gives us some nice possibilities.

License

zLib unless otherwise convinced.