Emacs appearances in pop culture

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Post by ggcr » Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 10:37 AM UTC

Emacs appearances in pop culture
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Post by ge96 » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 5:19 PM UTC

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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Post by tdubey » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 5:47 PM UTC

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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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

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Post by herodoturtle » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 6:03 PM UTC

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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Post by itrunsdoomguy » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 6:20 PM UTC

Time for an elisp port of Doom

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Post by bigmattystyles » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 6:28 PM UTC

ge96 wrote: post #2

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.

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

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Post by ge96 » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 6:31 PM UTC

bigmattystyles wrote: post #7

ge96 wrote: post #2

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.

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

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

Re: Emacs appearances in pop culture

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Post by hsbauauvhabzb » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 6:37 PM UTC

herodoturtle wrote: post #5

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?

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

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Post by cgag » Thu, Jun 11, 2026, 6:40 PM UTC

ge96 wrote: post #2

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.

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.