• Beginners:
  • Doom, Emacs & Windows
  • How to learn Emacs | IT PRO – Emacs tutorial that gets to org-babel quickly
• Emacs configuration:
  • Best way to try out different emacs configs
  • Looking for advice on a .emacs rewrite
  • Assimilate Emacs packages using Git submodules
  • display-buffer-control: Control how to open buffers matching specified conditions
  • Emacs: window rules and parameters (`display-buffer-alist’ and extras) – YouTube
  • Spin Your Own Spacemacs-lite – YouTube
• Emacs development:
  • emacsninja: State of Emacs Lisp on Guile (HN)
  • {Beta testers} {ANN} Let’s make emacs better – `explain-pause-mode` tells you when and why emacs is slow
  • masm11/emacs: A branch to port Emacs to pure-gtk3, in order to support Wayland.
  • Best way to learn enough to contribute to Emacs development?
  • Watch “Bringing GNU Emacs to native code” on YouTube
  • Mark browse-url-conkeror as obsolete
  • Reject invalid characters in XML strings (Bug#41094).
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Mention new customization options for package.el.
  • Improve shr/eww handling of mailto URLs
  • Various json.el improvements
  • Bookmark locations can refer to VC directory buffers (bug#39722)
  • New user option project-vc-merge-submodules
• Appearance:
  • organic-green-theme: Low-contrast green color theme for Emacs.
  • v2.0.0 Tron: Legacy Emacs Theme {link in comments} (Reddit)
  • Change Emacs theme depending on time
• Navigation:
  • Treemacs News v2
  • Undo in Emacs (Reddit)
  • {ANN} Undo-Fu 0.4 (with back-ported redo from Emacs 28)
  • helm-ag: The silver searcher with helm interface
• Macros:
  • Watch “Emacs Through Macros – 08 – Homework Exercise 01” on YouTube
  • Watch “Emacs Through Macros – 09 – Batch renaming files” on YouTube
  • macro-math: Perform math operations directly in the buffer. Great for macros
• Org Mode:
  • Preview SwiftUI layouts using Emacs org blocks (Reddit)
  • Weekly /r/Orgmode Open Discussion – May 22, 2020
  • highlighting – Color calendar day according to number of event in org-agenda – Emacs Stack Exchange
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Preview SwiftUI layouts using Emacs org blocks
• Coding:
  • slime-volleyball: Emacs Slime Volleyball
  • emacs-grails: A minor mode for Grails projects
  • Using GDB in Emacs
  • rubocopfmt.el: Emacs minor-mode to format Ruby code with RuboCop on save.
  • emacs-retrie: An Emacs package to refactor Haskell code with retrie
  • Irreal: Setting the Initial Visibility of Magit Sections
• Mail, news, and feeds:
  • Using Emacs 72 – Customizing Elfeed (Reddit)
  • Tiny Tiny RSS and Emacs Integration
  • Lazy Elfeed (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Open Emacs elfeed links in the background
• Web:
  • marionette.el: Control Firefox via the Marionette Protocol
  • emacs-selenium-controller: Control your browser with emacs and selenium.
  • chrome.el: Emacs remote tab control for Google Chrome
• Community:
  • Discord Channel for Doom Emacs
  • Michael Stapelberg uses Emacs
  • What’s your non-obvious killer feature of Emacs?
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
• Other:
  • A short love letter to emacs
  • Some Nice Emacs Packages – deft, mood-line, lsp-mode
  • Ansi-Term Remote Directory Tracking
  • {NEW Package} Learn Japanese kana (仮名，五十音) in emacs.
  • Managing dotfiles with chezmoi (Reddit)
  • journalctl-mode
  • emacs-yeis: Yeis’s Emacs’ Input Switcher (Reddit)
  • signal-msg: Send Signal messages from GNU Emacs using signal-cli
  • My Battles with Emacs – Part One (Reddit) – exploring Doom Emacs and Org Mode
  • Emacs on iOS via Blink Shell iOS app + Tailscale.com (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • scratch-comment: Insert Elisp result as comment in scratch buffer
  • psalm: Interface to Psalm
  • flycheck-psalm: Flycheck integration for Psalm

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file and emacs-devel.

In an extravagant instance of yak-shaving, I found myself trying to compile autotrace so that I could use it to trace my handwriting samples so that I could make a font with FontForge so that I could make worksheets for A- without worrying about finding a handwriting font with the right features and open font licensing.

AutoTrace had been written against ImageMagick 5, but this was no longer easily available. ImageMagick 7 greatly changed the API. Fortunately, GraphicsMagick kept the ImageMagick 5 API. I eventually figured out enough about autoconf and C (neither of which I had really worked with much before) to switch the library paths out while attempting to preserve backward compatibility. I think I got it, but I can’t really tell aside from the fact that compiling it with GraphicsMagick makes the included tests run. Yay!

At first I tried AC_DEFINE-ing twice in the same package check, but it turns out only the last one sticks, so I moved the other AC_DEFINE to a different condition.

Anyway, here’s the pull request. Whee! I’m coding!

• Emacs configuration:
  • miso-emacs: Opinionated Emacs distro for minimalists.
  • Better Emacs Config: use-package
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Where / How to learn Elisp?
  • {New package} A html template library in emacs-lisp.
  • Browsing new Code with Emacs
  • New issues with project.el and how I fixed it — open source annoyances and affordances (Reddit)
  • Stevey’s Blog Rants: Emergency Elisp (2008, Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • GNU Emacs raison d’etre
  • Making Emacs popular again with a video
  • Unify the Platforms: Cairo+FreeType+Harfbuzz Everywhere (except TTY)
  • Stefan Monnier’s SMIE paper & other Emacs goodies
  • Richard Stallman Joins Discussion About Changing Emacs’ Appearance To Make It More Popular – Slashdot
  • Funding Emacs Core Development?
  • Let’s get real multithreading into Emacs by hiring a developer
  • Introduce process-file-return-signal-string
  • Delete libraries obsolete since 23.1 and 23.2
  • Combine archive-int-to-mode and tar-grind-file-mode
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Theme Creator
  • I ported JetBrains Darcula (default dark) theme for Emacs {link in comments} (Reddit)
  • I Wrote an Emacs Color Theme – similar to VS Code Default High Contrast
  • Marcin Borkowski: Diffing and font-lock
• Org Mode:
  • Weekly /r/Orgmode Open Discussion – May 15, 2020
  • Org Agenda – Vedang Manerikar – YouTube (Emacs Pune Meetup)
  • My org-refile workflow – Yiming Chen
  • A Tour of Org Roam – YouTube
  • Own Your Second Brain: Set Up org-roam on Your Own Machine
  • Discourse group for ‘org-roam’ discussions
  • Avoid losing window layout when editing org code blocks
  • Non-trivial programs written with literate programming + org-mode?
  • org-beautify-theme: Subtle theme tweaks to make org-mode more pretty
  • Marcel Kapfer – Switching my Website to Hugo using ox-hugo
  • How to integrate org-webtools with org-capture.
  • Prettifying Org Mode with CSS
  • Tory Anderson: Org view html
  • Filestash – a web client for org-mode
  • orgro: An org-mode file viewer for iOS and Android
  • Sed script to convert org mode -> vim wiki file
• Coding:
  • Emacs as C++ IDE (2017)
  • magit-gerrit: Magit plugin for Gerrit Code Review
  • cdlatex: Fast input methods to enter LaTeX environments and math with GNU Emacs
  • lsp-racket: Emacs client for Racket Language Server Protocol
  • emacs-portage: Emacs interface to Portage
• Mail:
  • Email on Emacs – mu4e
• Community:
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
  • “Write a new package” culture instead of patches?
  • What Is Good Software – Reflections on Vim, NeoVim, Emacs’ evil-mode (2016)
  • emacsturbation: the act of furiously tinkering with emacs configuration, instead of doing something productive
  • Emacs vs. Vim: Why not both? – YouTube
  • {meme} When you see Emacs on TV… (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Using Emacs 71 Openwith (Reddit)
  • Emacs frontend for unix “tree” command
  • Doom Emacs Tips and Howtos | Narra’s Place
  • Hugo.el: A magit-style frontend for hugo (Reddit)
  • Emacs Through Macros – 07 – grep, init file – YouTube
  • {ANN} Undo-Fu-Session 0.2 (now with linear history)
  • Hardcore spell checking in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs EWW Web Browser – YouTube
  • Eigenbahn: Auto-close Emacs interpreter buffers
  • Emacs ESHELL demo (Reddit)
  • newsticker.el: Built-in Emacs RSS/Atom feed reader
  • Enrich Emacs dired’s batching toolbox
  • Setting up Emacs inside of a WSL2 distribution | utf9k
  • Update on my journey to Emacs from Vim + Bash + Tmux + i3
  • Building emacs 28 on jetpack 4.4 developer preview – Arcane Science Lab (Jetson Nano, $100 computer)
  • mybigword 0.0.1 is published (use Zipf frequency of each word to extract English big words) (Reddit)
  • {ANN} New package embark: run actions on completion candidates for users of icomplete or default completion
  • Using Emacs on Windows 10? I wrote a literate PowerShell module for installing and running Emacs as a daemon, called Cackledaemon (Reddit)
  • Chen Bin (redguardtoo): Hardcore spell checking in Emacs
  • emacsninja: State of Emacs Lisp on Guile
• Other applications:
  • osa-chrome: Emacs remote tab control for Google Chrome
  • exwm-firefox: window control for Firefox
  • Let’s share our EXWM configs!
  • Vimacs is Vim emulating Emacs
• New packages:
  • eldoc: Show function arglist or variable docstring in echo area
  • hyperlist-mode: A major-mode for viewing Hyperlists
  • literate-calc-mode: Inline results from calc
  • oj: Competitive programming tools client for AtCoder, Codeforces
  • org-roam-server: Org Roam Database Visualizer
  • osa: OSA (JavaScript / AppleScript) bridge
  • project: Operations on the current project
  • retrie: Refactoring Haskell code with retrie
  • unifdef: Delete code guarded by processor directives
  • xref: Cross-referencing commands

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file and emacs-devel.

• Emacs configuration:
  • parsenv: Use same environment files for both shell initialization and emacs.
  • wakib-emacs: Emacs Starter Kit based on Wakib keybindings
  • Doom Emacs Configuration
  • Yet another praise to doom! (
  • Emacs Tutorial 3 – Packages and which-key. – YouTube
• Emacs Lisp:
  • auto-complete, popup-el, and fuzzy-el looking for a new maintainer
  • Tory Anderson: Improving my elisp by building an API to my YOURLS shortener
  • regexp-expand, a small package to show/hide regular expressions in rx form
  • More emacs advice
  • Writing async backends for company-mode (Reddit)
  • {pdf} Evolution of Emacs Lisp – Stefan Monnier & others (HN)
• Emacs development:
  • Making Emacs popular again {LWN.net} (Reddit, HN) – lots of comments
  • How Emacs should get more users: A response to “Making Emacs popular again” (Reddit)
  • “The better option is to stop requiring copyright paperwork. It is harmful to the Emacs project.”
  • Emacs 27 with tabs and Xwidgets (Reddit)
  • {emacs-devel} Proper namespaces in Elisp (Reddit)
  • A binding based approach to proper namespaces for GNU Emacs (Reddit)
  • Add new filter command to Package Menu (Bug#39903)
  • cc-mode: add ‘c-lineup-ternary-bodies’ (bug#41061)
  • Allow predicates for matching in browse-url-handlers.
  • Allow for custom URL handlers in browse-url.
• Appearance:
  • A very minimal but elegant emacs (I think) (Reddit, emacs-devel)
  • eva-theme: Eva themes built from https://ift.tt/2AaPi5u
  • Making Emacs 27 tabs look like in Atom (Reddit)
  • Evangelion Inspired Theme
• Navigation:
  • Emacs, WSL, helm-locate and Everything search (Reddit)
  • Making Emacs tabs work like in Atom (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • An Academic Zettelkasten With Orgmode (Reddit)
  • Tracking my Time with Org-mode – Jack Baty’s weblog
  • org-to-clipboard
  • Using Literate Mode Tips
  • org_parser: An Org-mode parser for Dart.
  • Watch “Never Write Plain LaTeX Again with Emacs’ Org-Export!” on YouTube
  • Real World Examples — ox-hugo – Org to Hugo exporter
  • org-website-backend: Backend that provides a beautiful front-end for org-generated websites
  • org_flutter: Org-mode widgets for Flutter
• Coding:
  • Analyzing data science code with R and Emacs | Opensource.com
  • Watch “GNU Emacs as a lightweight LaTex IDE (Mobile compatible audio)” on YouTube
  • Eigenbahn: Fast Clojure dependency hot-reload
  • Becoming an emacs gopher
• Mail:
  • gmail-mode: A major-mode for editing gmail messages using markdown syntax (in emacs).
• Community:
  • {emacs-devel} Emacs community outside emacs-devel
  • Do you “live inside Emacs”? Few questions for ya!
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
• Other:
  • anyconnect: Wrapper for “vpncli”. Connect to your VPN from Emacs!
  • emacs-on-apple: Emacs for Apple devices – Release v26.3.52 ·
  • {NEW} calibredb.el – Yet another calibre emacs client.
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: connect my Bluetooth speaker
  • drag-stuff.el: Drag stuff around in Emacs
  • Watch “Emacs: ESHELL demo” on YouTube
  • Watch “Emacs Through Macros – 06 – Occur, some intense macro debugging” on YouTube
  • 15 Reasons Why I Use Emacs
• New packages:
  • auth-source-xoauth2: Integrate auth-source with XOAUTH2
  • gnus-notes: Keep handy notes of read Gnus articles with helm and org
  • iceberg-theme: Well-designed, eye-friendly, dark blue color scheme
  • liberime: Rime elisp binding
  • lpy: A lispy interface to Python
  • org-books: Reading list management with Org mode and helm
  • ytel: Query YouTube via Invidious
• Completion:
  • live-completions: Live updating of the Completions buffer
  • {ANN} New package live-completions, a simple minibuffer completion UI
  • restricto: This package provides a command to restrict minibuffer completion to the current completion candidates

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file and emacs-devel.

• Emacs configuration:
  • Bringing my Emacs from the past – Federico’s Blog
  • WFHing with Emacs: Work Mode and Command-Line Options – Epsilon Clue (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Help in read-string
  • a bit of emacs advice (Reddit)
  • osa: Emacs Lisp to Open Scripting Architecture (AppleScript / JavaScript) bridge
• Emacs development:
  • Contributing to Emacs (for beginners) (Reddit)
  • Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code – ELS2020 (Reddit, HN)
  • Docker image for the Emacs native compiler feature branch from emacs.git feature/native-comp.
  • Namespaces – summary, conclusion (function naming and discoverability; also part of discussions about Imports / inclusion of s.el into Emacs and Re: ELPA New package: transient)
  • The symbol-prefix-separator-must-be-a-hyphen topic comes up on emacs-devel again (proposing to use slashes to separate prefixes for library symbols) (Reddit)
  • * lisp/emacs-lisp/eieio.el (oset, oset-default): Mark as obsolete
  • cc-mode: add support for Doxygen documentation style
  • Add lisp-data-mode for editing non-code Lisp data
  • Add new function dom-remove-attribute
• Appearance:
  • Default emacs theme without the syntax highlighting (Reddit)
  • icons-in-terminal-ibuffer: Display icons for all buffers in ibuffer (for Emacs in terminal)
  • icons-in-terminal-helm: Integration between helm and treemacs icons
  • fontpreview-mode: Reimplementation of fontpreview in elisp.
• Navigation:
  • ido-like restrict to matches while completing
  • Dynamic title for Treemacs workspace (Reddit)
  • GitHub – hiromichinomata/emacro: Use emacs macro like grep
  • Using Recoll desktop search database with Emacs · (or emacs (2015)
• Org Mode:
  • Weekly /r/Orgmode Open Discussion – May 01, 2020
  • My Current Org Mode Files and Heading Structure
  • ANN: org-special-block-extras is now on MELPA
  • A Featureful Blog made with Emacs Org-mode (Reddit)
  • Pandoc to Orgmode with Babel – Rohit Goswami
  • wunderlist-to-org: Converts Wunderlist exports to Org-Mode files.
  • Blogging with Org mode and FastPages
  • {blog post} Configuring Emacs with Org mode and literate programming (Reddit)
  • Emacs + Org-mode + Syncthing = Perfect combo | (hiepph) (2017, HN)
  • {RFC} Native Declarative Org Capture Templates (DOCT)?
  • Voice capture org-mode notes and more using Siri Shortcuts on iOS (Reddit)
  • Voice capture org-mode tasks on Android – Org mode Exocortex
  • chrome-org-store-link
  • Org Capture From Anywhere on Your Mac – The Chronicle
• Coding:
  • {ANN} lsp-dart 1.8.0 released (better Flutter support)
  • Yurii Ostapchuk at #ScalaUA – How I learned to stop worrying and love LSP (and Emacs :)) – YouTube
  • webkit-katex-render: An instant LaTeX previewer for Emacs, based on xwidget and child-frame
  • web-mode.el version 17
  • Refresh auctex syntax highlighting | Pragmatic Emacs
  • magit-status-advice: Version control pleasantry as a minor mode
  • lsp-mode 6.3 released to MELPA stable (Reddit)
  • Hy – Lisp in Python emacs repl inferior mode support (Reddit)
  • Emacs – Elixir Setup Configuration Wiki
  • A small ido based script to run pyBuilder tasks from project files with valid projectile roots.
  • Windows Spacemacs installation
• Community:
  • Weekly tips/trick/etc/ thread
  • Planet Emacses
• Other:
  • Doom Emacs Zaiste Programming Tutorial – Ian’s notes
  • Emacs Tutorial 1 – Introduction, download and history – YouTube
  • My thoughts on text editors, and why I think that Emacs is best of them all (Reddit)
  • Moving from a Tmux, Bash, Vim setup to Emacs. How should I do this?
  • Introducing Zetteldeft
  • emacspeak: Emacspeak 52.0 (WorkAtHomeDog) Unleashed!
  • emacs-keypression: Keystroke visualizer for GUI version Emacs.
  • Emacs as a shell (Reddit)
  • Awqat: package to calculate 5 daily prayer times
  • another-emacs-server: An Emacs server built on HTTP and JSON
  • Watch “Emacs Through Macros – 05 – elisp, macro counter” on YouTube
  • {Proposal} New EUDC backend for macOS address book
• New packages:
  • counsel-fd: counsel interface for fd
  • friendly-remote-shell: Human-friendly remote interactive shells
  • friendly-shell-command: Better shell-command API
  • friendly-shell: Better shell-mode API
  • geiser-kawa: Kawa scheme support for Geiser
  • gnu-elpa: Advertize GNU ELPA packages
  • go-noisegate: Run Golang tests with Noise Gate
  • inform7: Major mode for working with Inform 7 files
  • inform: Symbol links in Info buffers to their help documentation.
  • languagetool: LanguageTool integration for grammar check
  • message-attachment-reminder: Remind if missing attachment
  • multistate: Multistate mode
  • nothing-theme: Monochrome theme
  • org-id-cleanup: Interactively cleanup unused IDs of org-id
  • shrface: Extend shr/eww with org features and analysis capability
  • vega-view: Vega visualization viewer

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file and emacs-devel.

I haven’t really touched quantifiedawesome.com’s codebase in a while. I’m afraid of breaking it in a way that requires focused time to fix. I’m starting to be able to code teeeny tiny bits after A- goes to bed, but I can’t stay up too late or the next day gets pretty tough. I also feel myself thinking less effectively as I stay up longer.

Still, I thought I’d dust it off and give it a try, especially since it turns out that other people actually still use the thing frequently enough to notice when the site isn’t working. (I accidentally messed up my database permissions the other night. Fortunately, it was something I could fix by chown-ing my MySQL data directory back to my mysql user instead of docker. Oops.)

Maybe thinking out loud will help. Back to using blog posts for writing my way through a problem.

Okay. Small bug. Autocomplete dropdown doesn’t look so nice. I have to go figure out where to set the styles again… That’s in app/assets/stylesheets/style.css.sass . I think I’ve figured out the change to make. How do I build rails app scss assets again? RAILS_ENV=production rake assets:precompile – oh, I need rake assets:precompile… Oops! That really didn’t like that, resulting in lots of errors like this:

.../lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/conversions.rb:121: warning: constant ::Fixnum is deprecated .../lib/active_support/core_ext/numeric/conversions.rb:121: warning: constant ::Bignum is deprecated rake aborted! SystemStackError: stack level too deep

Hmm, maybe I have the wrong Ruby version. I peeked in ruby-with-env and used the source line from that to load the right environment. I really need to upgrade Ruby and gem versions, but that requires lots of focused time and kindergarten is looking like less of a possibility.

Okay, that rebuilt my CSS file. Yay! Wait, I think I’m starting to remember how to restart this thing. touch tmp/restart.txt

It’s not very pretty, but it’s marginally better than before. It’ll do.