Typesense
Haiku Ticket Giveaway
Submit a haiku for a chance to win a ticket to Blue Ridge Ruby.

Typesense (sponsor of Blue Ridge Ruby 2026) is giving away four tickets to the conference. Submit a haiku on the theme of “search” by March 30th and the four top-voted haikus will be awarded a free ticket.
(Limit one submission per person. No purchase necessary.)

Submissions are closed

Haiku Submissions

7 haikus submitted

Once upon a time
Before AI or Google
You would read a book

8 votes

scattered on desktop
no one organizes files
now, blindly, they search

5 votes

Asked AI to help
It was confident and wrong
Stack Overflow's back

5 votes

Wistful, searching we
through ponderous dreck filled mire
long for simpler days

4 votes

Glasses are missing
Not on my desk nor table
OH, they're on my head

3 votes

She beats silent wings
Through barren brush she looks — finds!
A meal for her chicks

3 votes

Here's my recent search:
"Is a hotdog a sandwich?"
It's debatable

2 votes