Emacs appearances in pop culture

(ianyepan.github.io)

109 points | by ggcr 1 day ago

4 comments

  • ge96 1 hour ago

    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.

    • cgag 14 minutes ago

      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.

      • dhosek 14 minutes ago

        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.

        • bigmattystyles 26 minutes ago

          Like that time Kelly Rowland sent Nelly a text using excel https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1b8xawt/kel...

          • ge96 23 minutes ago

            Which is pretty funny like was that a picture or actually running excel

        • tdubey 1 hour ago

          Hilariously, the Arctic Blast screenshot seems to be the Audacity audio editor with Emacs overlaid! https://ianyepan.github.io/images/arctic-blast-emacs.png

          • itrunsdoomguy 34 minutes ago

            Time for an elisp port of Doom

            • herodoturtle 51 minutes ago

              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?

              • hsbauauvhabzb 16 minutes ago

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