Tag Archives: Humor

Red Meat Friday: AWS Is Down, I Can’t Sleep

Posted on 2025-10-24 by jcs

Farce comes to the Internet. All right, farce comes to the Internet again. With the failure of AWS this week, many, many services were interrupted, including my Spanish learning app. It was annoying but, after all, you can always practice … Continue reading →

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A Little Bit Of Humor

Posted on 2025-08-08 by jcs

I have no idea if this is legitimate but I find it hilarious. It does seem like Google, though.

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The Ten Commandments Of The Church Of Emacs

Posted on 2025-03-24 by jcs

It’s Monday. Most of us are looking around bleary eyed wondering what happened to the weekend that just started. Here’s a little humor to get you warmed up for what’s to come. Over at the Emacs subreddit, bruchieOP posts the … Continue reading →

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Getting Car Sick With Lisp

Posted on 2024-11-17 by jcs

Just a quickie today. Over at the Lisp subredit, breck says that he used to program in Lisp but got car sick. It’s a pretty weak pun but the commenters took up the challenge and kept the ball rolling. DrownNotably … Continue reading →

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How Emacs Packages Get Delivered

Posted on 2023-10-06 by jcs

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

Posted on 2023-09-22 by jcs

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

Posted on 2023-09-03 by jcs

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

Posted on 2023-04-05 by jcs

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

Posted on 2022-11-17 by jcs

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?

Posted on 2022-06-20 by jcs

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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