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swankjesse/hdr-emojis
A collection of PNG files crafted to render at extreme brightness on HDR-capable displays, specifically Chrome on MacBook Pros with ProMotion screens. The whole point is to be obnoxious — these will blow out your coworkers' eyes in Slack. It's a joke repo that exposes a real browser behavior.
Demonstrates a genuine quirk in how Chrome and macOS handle HDR color profiles in web content, which most developers don't know exists. The README is actually useful — the killall workarounds and chrome://flags fix are practical. Jesse Wilson (OkHttp, Moshi) making this is funny in context and probably why it got traction.
There's no code here, just PNG files. The 'how to create your own' section links out rather than explaining the technique, which is the actually interesting part. One fork in a year means nobody is building on it, because there's nothing to build on. Not useful unless you specifically want to annoy someone.