Emacs appearances in pop culture
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by ggcr
1 day ago
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TeaVMFan
5 minutes ago
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Not exactly an appearance, but I definitely give emacs a shout-out in the end notes of my new novel: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GYCZJVGX
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ge96
1 hour ago
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How to sell drugs online fast was a great show because they kept stressing how they had to have the test pass in their Vue front end.

I always whenever I see code on a show/movie I wonder if it's real, a lot of times it's a mix of random languages. Sometimes just jibberish.

Also recently watched Nirvana 1997 really good.

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bigmattystyles
33 minutes ago
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Like that time Kelly Rowland sent Nelly a text using excel https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1b8xawt/kel...
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jgrahamc
11 minutes ago
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It was 100% not Excel: https://blog.jgc.org/2023/07/unfortunately-kelly-rowland-cou...

Also, we're really close to the 24 year anniversary of "Dilemma": https://hollawhenyougetthis.com

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ge96
30 minutes ago
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Which is pretty funny like was that a picture or actually running excel
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thesuitonym
5 minutes ago
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> a lot of times it's a mix of random languages. Sometimes just jibberish.

And sometimes it's just a directory listing.

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cgag
21 minutes ago
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I paused a bunch of times and I forget the details, but I remember everything always looking good, especially his brainstorming about the site and making notes about pgp and onion services and the like.

I also loved them knowing Lenny wrote some code, as he was the only person in the world who uses snake case in javascript, because I’m also a snake case heretic.

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dhosek
21 minutes ago
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One of the great onscreen code moments was in Superman III¹ where Richard Pryors’ character has written some “impossible” program and when the listing is shown on screen it’s pretty much five screens of BASIC REM statements.

1. A movie which exists primarily to set up a joke in Office Space.

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jgrahamc
10 minutes ago
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More great on screen code moments (I haven't got round to Superman III, yet): https://behind-the-screens.tv But Superman III is not just REM statements.
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tdubey
1 hour ago
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Hilariously, the Arctic Blast screenshot seems to be the Audacity audio editor with Emacs overlaid! https://ianyepan.github.io/images/arctic-blast-emacs.png
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itrunsdoomguy
41 minutes ago
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Time for an elisp port of Doom
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herodoturtle
58 minutes ago
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That TRON theme linked in the article is cool, thanks for sharing.

At risk of being downvoted into oblivion by the emacs gang, I wonder if someone’s got a similar theme for vim?

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hsbauauvhabzb
24 minutes ago
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There’s aren’t that hard to make, rip the palette and vibecoding a theme is viable.
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