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Tag: flags

  • Screenshot showing a calculator deriving the EU flag emoji from the letters E and U.

    Converting ISO Country Codes to Flag Emojis

    Did you know that there's a simple formula you can use to convert from an ISO two-letter country code to the emoji of the flag of that country. I've made an interactive thingy to demonstrate it, and shared some other fun things I've learned while playing around with ISO 3166 and flag emoji.

    Read more - about 3 minutes (529 words)

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    • 6 comments
    • posted 31 May, 2026
  • Like many in the UK, I'm dismayed every time I see the plague of St. George's Cross (flag of England) that nationalists have been hanging on lamp posts on recent years.

    So it gave me great joy to see that this lamp post had recently acquired a (larger!) pride flag. ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

    Full image of Two flags hang from a tall lamp post. The smaller upper one is a St. George's Cross, the flag of England.the lower, larger (and much nicer) one is the six-colour Pride rainbow.
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    Two flags hang from a tall lamp post. The smaller upper one is a St. George's Cross, the flag of England.the lower, larger (and much nicer) one is the six-colour Pride rainbow.

    If we're going to become a country that hangs flags everywhere... I'd much rather that they be flags that speak of inclusivity and diversity. โค๏ธ

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    • 9 comments
    • posted 24 March, 2026
  • Illustration showing conversation between simulated WorldWideWeb and MetaFilter via an API that ultimately sends requests without a User-Agent, gets a 403 in response, and can't handle the 403 and so returns a confusing 500.

    Debugging WorldWideWeb

    His Geek Flag held high, Dan proposes a minor bugfix to some software that almost nobody cares about.

    Read more - about 5 minutes (1028 words)

    • Article
    • 5 comments
    • posted 24 February, 2019
  • Flag of Planet Earth

    The International Flag of Planet Earth



    The International Flag of Planet Earth
    Inspirational, well thought-out proposal for a flag for unified, "for Earth" projects. The website is terrible, but the artwork's great, and it's always nice to see an artist focus on the idea of "uniting humanity" in spite of our politically-fractured world.

    Read more (47 words)

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    • 1 comment
    • posted 2 November, 2018

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