Tag Archives: Humor

How Emacs Packages Get Delivered

Just a quick bit of humor today. In case you were wondering how the magic of delivering Emacs packages to you worked, here’s the explanation: In case you are wondering how your emacs packages get delivered: byu/fuxx90 inemacs

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Live In Emacs Or Die

Today, we have a bit of humor that we can all relate to. Reddit has a post announcing the Web browser NYXT inspired by Emacs. I don’t know anything about NXYT but I did love this comment from noooit: Comment … Continue reading

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Compiler Humor

Apropos of Nothing, as Cheryl Crow once put it, here’s something you don’t see very often: compiler humor. From another era when engineers were still allowed to inject whimsy into software, Tony Cunningham offers us a selection of error messages … Continue reading

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A Bit of Humor

It’s a busier day than usual for me today so this is just a quickie. I saw this post by Jason Eckert about the disparity between Apple’s hardware and their software. It’s probably not of much interest if you aren’t … Continue reading

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A New Take On Quitting Vim

Finally! A new take on the quitting Vim meme: I believe AGI will develop the ability to prevent humans from terminating it. After all vim got 60% there with a fraction of compute resources. — Ferenc Huszár (@fhuszar) November 15, … Continue reading

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Am I Being Watched?

If you’re paranoid, the answer is “of course”. If you aren’t paranoid, the answer is “of course”. Here’s a humorous tweet that provides the proof: 👀 pic.twitter.com/F4B6ms5JiD — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 30, 2022

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Pointers

One of the hardest things to learn in C—indeed, many say it’s the acid test for a good C programmer—is pointers. Here’s an amusing cartoon (via Karl Voit) that explains it as well as any other explanation I’ve seen. Pointers … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: Coffee Confidential

This episode of Red Meat Friday isn’t really red meat so much as an account of a skirmish between two bête noires of yore. The two combatants were Microsoft and IBM. Not very long ago they were the two giants … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: Internet Laws

Some of you may argue that today’s offering isn’t really Red Meat but since almost everybody will be offended by something in this list of Internet Laws, the Minions have ruled that it qualifies. You’ve probably seen some of these—Murphy’s … Continue reading

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Red Meat Friday: Emacs Discoverability

Here’s nice coda to yesterday’s post on Mickey’s essay on bad Emacs advice. As with all great humor, this is hilarious precisely because of the truth it’s based on.

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