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Totally unrelated: why is the "bug" emoji a caterpillar (https://emojipedia.org/bug/ https://emojipedia.org/bug/)? Ok, you could say all insects (including prel

by rob74 4y ago

Totally unrelated: why is the "bug" emoji a caterpillar (https://emojipedia.org/bug/ https://emojipedia.org/bug/)? Ok, you could say all insects (including preliminary stages) can be called bugs, but if you did a poll, probably most would imagine a bug as a beetle or a "true bug" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiptera)...

myfonj 4y ago
+1. There's even "beetle" [0.a], "cockroach" [0.b] and "fly" [0.c] emoji in the Unicode, that are way closer to what I envision as a "software bug" than caterpillars, centipedes (!)[2.c] and even slugs (!!)[1.a] that are used to represent the "bug" you've linked [1]. And yes, technically it should be a moth [2], probably (?). [0.a] https://emojipedia.org/beetle/ https://emojipedia.org/beetle/ [0.b] https://emojipedia.org/cockroach/ https://emojipedia.org/cockroach/ [0.c] https://emojipedia.org/fly/ https://emojipedia.org/fly/ [1] https://emojipedia.org/bug/ https://emojipedia.org/bug/ [1.a] https://emojipedia.org/mozilla/firefox-os-2.5/bug/ https://emojipedia.org/mozilla/firefox-os-2.5/bug/ [2] https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/worlds-first-computer-bug/ https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/worlds-fir...
Ansik 4y ago
I usually check http://scrumoji.org http://scrumoji.org for some inspiration, there the caterpillar is used for bug so might be the source for some others too!
- zichy 4y ago
  At a previous job we used https://gitmoji.dev https://gitmoji.dev, which scrumoji is based on. At some point I started using the ladybug emoji for bugs because it's actually a bug while my colleagues kept using the caterpillar emoji because they preferred caterpillars. I thought it was a nice way to bring some individuality into our commit messages!
anotherhue 4y ago
"An inordinate fondness for beetles." A possibly apocryphal reply to theologians who inquired if there was anything that could be concluded about the Creator from the study of creation; as described in "Homage to Santa Rosalia, or why are there so many kinds of animals" by G. Evelyn Hutchinson in American Naturalist (May-June 1959); This alludes to the fact that there are more types of beetles than any other form of insect, and more insects than any other kind of animal. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane
FinnKuhn 4y ago
the bug is probably a caterpillar, because it is way cuter and easier to distinguish. ...or they might have just looked at https://gitmoji.dev/ https://gitmoji.dev/

by rob74 4y ago

myfonj 4y ago

+1. There's even "beetle" [0.a], "cockroach" [0.b] and "fly" [0.c] emoji in the Unicode, that are way closer to what I envision as a "software bug" than caterpillars, centipedes (!)[2.c] and even slugs (!!)[1.a] that are used to represent the "bug" you've linked [1]. And yes, technically it should be a moth [2], probably (?). [0.a] https://emojipedia.org/beetle/ https://emojipedia.org/beetle/ [0.b] https://emojipedia.org/cockroach/ https://emojipedia.org/cockroach/ [0.c] https://emojipedia.org/fly/ https://emojipedia.org/fly/ [1] https://emojipedia.org/bug/ https://emojipedia.org/bug/ [1.a] https://emojipedia.org/mozilla/firefox-os-2.5/bug/ https://emojipedia.org/mozilla/firefox-os-2.5/bug/ [2] https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/worlds-first-computer-bug/ https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/worlds-fir...

Ansik 4y ago

I usually check http://scrumoji.org http://scrumoji.org for some inspiration, there the caterpillar is used for bug so might be the source for some others too!

zichy 4y ago
At a previous job we used https://gitmoji.dev https://gitmoji.dev, which scrumoji is based on. At some point I started using the ladybug emoji for bugs because it's actually a bug while my colleagues kept using the caterpillar emoji because they preferred caterpillars. I thought it was a nice way to bring some individuality into our commit messages!

anotherhue 4y ago

"An inordinate fondness for beetles." A possibly apocryphal reply to theologians who inquired if there was anything that could be concluded about the Creator from the study of creation; as described in "Homage to Santa Rosalia, or why are there so many kinds of animals" by G. Evelyn Hutchinson in American Naturalist (May-June 1959); This alludes to the fact that there are more types of beetles than any other form of insect, and more insects than any other kind of animal. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane

FinnKuhn 4y ago

the bug is probably a caterpillar, because it is way cuter and easier to distinguish. ...or they might have just looked at https://gitmoji.dev/ https://gitmoji.dev/