• Emacs Lisp:
  • Emacs adds support for a second (read earlier) init file (Reddit, NEWS)
  • Options for Structured Data in Emacs Lisp
  • Exterminate Magit buffers
• Emacs development:
  • Writing Emacs's dynamic modules in Rust (Reddit)
  • Would appreciate some feedback on Stefan's patches to package.el (Reddit)
  • Git Stats for Emacs (Reddit)
  • The portable dumper for emacs is now in a branch on savannah (Reddit)
  • Preserve special abbrev properties when writing
  • Update `server-name' :version & document sockname
• Navigation:
  • Emacs Tutorial 17 – Searching with swiper!
• Org Mode:
  • Blogging with org-mode and ox-hugo (Reddit)
  • Using Emacs 41 Pandoc (Reddit)
  • A nice idea to implement kanban boards on org-mode (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • python-pytest now available on MELPA
  • Using Emacs 42 – Git Gutter and Time Machine (Reddit)
  • bmx-mode: Action-paced Windows Batch-file editing, powered by GNU Emacs! (Reddit)
• Other:
  • Why I still use Emacs (2017)
  • To Luke Smith: Why bother with Emacs? Part 1, Part 2
  • Why Emacs is Awesome
  • Introducing bart-mode. Are you a bay area commuter? Check real-time BART info in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Wrote a package: services-mode. Useful to anyone else? (Reddit)
  • Music with Emacs – mpd and EMMS!
  • (Emacs+Org-Mode) Emacs: Our Home For Creativity, Learning, Fellowship, And Fun
• New packages:
  • attrap: ATtempt To Repair At Point
  • aurora-config-mode: Major mode for Apache Aurora configuration files
  • bmx-mode: Batch Mode eXtras
  • call-graph: Library to generate call graph for cpp functions
  • cobalt: Easily use the Cobalt.rs static site generator
  • flower: Emacs task tracker client.
  • gif-screencast: One-frame-per-action GIF recording
  • ibuffer-sidebar: Sidebar for `ibuffer'
  • ivy-posframe: Using posframe to show Ivy
  • org-rich-yank: paste with org-mode markup and link to source
  • pickle: Major mode for editing cucumber gherkin files.
  • python-pytest: helpers to run pytest
  • rubik: Rubik's Cube
  • sly-repl-ansi-color: Add ANSI colors support to the sly mrepl.
  • stgit: major mode for StGit interaction
  • sudden-death: Totsuzen-no-Shi

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, YouTube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.