• Help wanted:
  • EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals (Reddit, HN) until Sept 30
  • Prot's laptop is having a hard time (Reddit) - Prot has a Paypal donation link at the bottom of the page
  • Command Discovery in Emacs (Feb 2021) - might be a good way to start contributing to Emacs
• Upcoming events:
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Aug 20 0700 Vancouver / 0900 Chicago / 1000 Toronto / 1400 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 1930 Kolkata / 2200 Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (virtual, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 25 0930 Vancouver / 1130 Chicago / 1230 Toronto / 1630 GMT / 1830 Berlin / 2200 Kolkata – Thu Aug 26 0030 Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual, in English) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Aug 28 0130 Vancouver / 0330 Chicago / 0430 Toronto / 0830 GMT / 1030 Berlin / 1400 Kolkata / 1630 Singapore
• Beginner:
  • 30 days of Emacs – Day 1: Installation using Homebrew on macOS, first steps, tutorial, use-package
  • A gentle introduction to Emacs for ex-ViM users (09:08)
  • The Modern Emacs - Andrew Tropin (1:33:38, Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Emacs config without use-package - an experiment
  • yuri tricys: Emacs Snitch and How to Improve Performance
  • unpackaged/custom-toggle-all-more-hide: Expand all options’ documentation (Reddit) - discussion of helm in the comments
  • System Crafters Live! - Emacs Package Potluck (Trying Your Suggestions!) (02:02:23)
  • ahmadnazir's Emacs config - Spacemacs, .NET, Helm
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Submitting a Package to NonGNU ELPA (Reddit)
  • plz.el: An HTTP library for Emacs, using curl as a backend
  • Andrea: Moldable Emacs: editing your file via Treesitter (or, how I fixed my CSS with a Playground)
  • First time writing elisp code from scratch - 1password handler
• Emacs development:
  • * lisp/simple.el (shift-select-mode): Add new choice 'permanent' (bug#50038).
  • Revert "Bind the GIT_LITERAL_PATHSPECS environment variable"
  • Add new functions for lax mail address splitting
  • Fix merging of ambiguous nil maps
  • Add font-lock-doc-markup-face (bug#50041)
  • Add new face diff-changed-unspecified
  • Add save-some-buffers-root to save-some-buffers-default-predicate (bug#46374)
  • Add a `pcase-setq' macro
  • Add new image-dired commands
  • Mark marked images in Image-Dired mode
  • Let image-dired-mouse-toggle-mark act on active region
  • Use ### for outline headings in shell-script-mode
  • Add support for outlining in shell-script-mode
  • Add new user option `gnus-topic-prepare-topic'
  • Add a new command `revert-buffer-quick'
• Appearance:
  • highlight-parentheses.el: Emacs: highlight surrounding parentheses
  • Basic WYSIWYG printing in GNU Emacs (Arabic & Hebrew)
• Navigation:
  • crux - a Collection of Ridiculously Useful eXtensions for Emacs (08:52)
  • thing-edit: Copy and paste anything under cursor. (2020)
  • [ANN] dogears.el: Never lose your place in Emacs again (Reddit)
  • Manuel Uberti: Switching buffers (Take 3)
• Completion:
  • consult-dir: switch directories in Emacs at any time (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • fanyi.el: English-Chinese translator for Emacs.
  • mw-dictionaries: This is modified from mw-thesaurus.el with support for Learner dictionary
• Org Mode:
  • Peter Prevos: Ricing Org Mode: A Beautiful Writing Environment (Irreal)
  • Emacs Agenda Views | DummyHead (2019)
  • Timekeeping with Emacs and Org-Mode (2020)
  • Irreal: Org-ref-cite Video
  • Org parser libraries | org-almanac (Reddit)
  • iOS: Improving org task rendering (Reddit)
  • Org Roam:
    • org-roam (Emacs Zettelkasten Package) Version 2 Released • Zettelkasten Method
    • Capturing Notes Efficiently with Org Roam (Reddit)
    • Peter Prevos: Visualise Org-Roam Networks With igraph and R
    • Benjamin Slade: Automatically adding information to Org-roam file properties (Reddit)
    • Benjamin Slade: Org-roam on Android
• Coding:
  • Getting Emacs and Julia to work
  • 30 days of Emacs - Day 2 — kevinsjoberg OCaml
  • datum Query databases from the command line, via ODBC. Plays nicely with Emacs' SQLi mode
  • parcont.el: Continuation-based sexp editing commands
  • comp-ide.el: A simple and efficient Emacs Competitive IDE. (Youtube)
  • Fast switching between two git branches (Reddit) helm-git-branch
• Math:
  • Easy Entry of Math Symbols (Global Keybindings) (Reddit)
• Mail and news:
  • Tassilo Horn: Make your RSS enjoyable in feed readers such as elfeed
  • [ANN] New package: mu4e-column-faces (Reddit)
• Web:
  • Switch nyxt buffers and run nyxt commands from emacs (Reddit)
  • Andrea: Following wise suggestions: making emacs-with-nyxt more consistent
• Spacemacs:
  • GUI Spacemacs support for Dockerized Pen.el
• Doom Emacs:
  • One year of doom emacs and never looked back
  • Use Emacs-Tree-Sitter for Highlighting in Doom Emacs (2020)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • Telegram @emacs_posts: Emacs News and Posts (Reddit)
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: 10×10% – Random Thoughts (closing 45% of open Emacs bugs) (Reddit, HN)
• Other:
  • Termux + Emacs
  • How to run multiple Emacs daemon instances
• New packages:
  • consult-dir: Consult based directory picker
  • efar: FAR-like file manager
  • evil-textobj-treesitter: Provides evil textobjects using treesitter
  • gumshoe: Scoped spatial and temporal POINT movement tracking
  • netease-cloud-music: Netease Cloud Music client
  • session-async: Asynchronous processing in a forked process session
  • streamlink: A major mode for streamlink output
  • untappd: Display your latest Untappd feed

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