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.
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1. A movie which exists primarily to set up a joke in Office Space.
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.
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.
Enjoyable list but I’m not sure the AlphaGo documentary counts as pop culture :).
It’s interesting how people talk about vi vs emacs, can’t remember ever meeting anyone who chose vi over vim, let alone enough people to make th at the debate.
Cryptonomicon has the use of a highly custom version of Emacs called OrdoEmacs.
https://dev.to/hyenast2/neal-stephenson-s-cryptonomicon-and-...
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.
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.
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1. A movie which exists primarily to set up a joke in Office Space.
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.
Like that time Kelly Rowland sent Nelly a text using excel https://www.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/1b8xawt/kel...
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
Which is pretty funny like was that a picture or actually running excel
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.
> a lot of times it's a mix of random languages. Sometimes just jibberish.
And sometimes it's just a directory listing.
Hilariously, the Arctic Blast screenshot seems to be the Audacity audio editor with Emacs overlaid! https://ianyepan.github.io/images/arctic-blast-emacs.png
Enjoyable list but I’m not sure the AlphaGo documentary counts as pop culture :).
It’s interesting how people talk about vi vs emacs, can’t remember ever meeting anyone who chose vi over vim, let alone enough people to make th at the debate.
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
Bonus points for silicon valley doubling the Emacs references with vim AND spaces vs tabs
Time for an elisp port of Doom
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.