• EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals (Reddit, HN) until Sept 30
• Upcoming events:
  • EmacsConf Office Hours: https://emacsconf.org/2021/office-hours/
    • Tue Aug 31 1800 Vancouver / 2000 Chicago / 2100 Toronto – Wed Sep 1 0100 GMT / 0300 Berlin / 0630 Kolkata / 0900 Singapore
    • Fri Sep 3 2100 Vancouver / 2300 Chicago – Sat Sep 4 0000 Toronto / 0400 GMT / 0600 Berlin / 0930 Kolkata / 1200 Singapore
    • Sat Sep 4 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
    • Tue Sep 7 1800 Vancouver / 2000 Chicago / 2100 Toronto – Wed Sep 8 0100 GMT / 0300 Berlin / 0630 Kolkata / 0900 Singapore
    • Fri Sep 10 2100 Vancouver / 2300 Chicago – Sat Sep 11 0000 Toronto / 0400 GMT / 0600 Berlin / 0930 Kolkata / 1200 Singapore
    • Sat Sep 11 0800 Vancouver / 1000 Chicago / 1100 Toronto / 1500 GMT / 1700 Berlin / 2030 Kolkata / 2300 Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Initialization Social https://www.meetup.com/EmacsATX/events/279983164/ Wed Sep 1 1630 Vancouver / 1830 Chicago / 1930 Toronto / 2330 GMT – Thu Sep 2 0130 Berlin / 0500 Kolkata / 0730 Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Sep 3 0700 Vancouver / 0900 Chicago / 1000 Toronto / 1400 GMT / 1600 Berlin / 1930 Kolkata / 2200 Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • [ANN] sidecar-locals (flexible dir-locals alternative) now in melpa
  • What is your most productive emacs shortcut?
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Notes from creating my first emacs package - eventuel (Reddit)
  • lazy-load: An Elisp library that provides autoloads from pre-configured directories
  • [ANN] alphapapa/taxy.el: Programmable taxonomical hierarchy for arbitrary objects (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • Emacs-devel: Gitlab Migration Discussion (Reddit)
  • Fix typo in kill-buffer-delete-auto-save-files NEWS entry
  • Make rfc2368 obsolete and add rfc6068
  • Add support for OSC 7 in comint (current directory tracking)
  • Better document obsolescence of 'values'
  • * etc/NEWS: Document the recent xterm.el change for `\e[29~`
  • Replace flyspell-use-mouse-3-for-menu with context-menu-mode (bug#50067)
  • Make thingatpt respect fields
  • Make `set-locale-environment' complete over locale names
  • Add support for OSC escape codes in comint
  • Doc that dired-do-chmod no longer follows symlinks
  • Improve documentation of 'inhibit-mouse-event-check'
  • * lisp/mouse.el (context-menu-open): New command bound to [S-f10].
  • Add new variable 'kill-buffer/delete-auto-save-files'
• Appearance:
  • Customizing a Theme for Emacs
  • Draw SVG in GNU Emacs - improving svg.el to include cropping, drawing?
  • svg-clock-mode: an SVG analog clock for Emacs (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Emacs Search Multiple Words Under Point (00:30) - C-s C-w C-w …
• Dired:
  • A Beginner's Introduction to Dired Mode (If you don't already use Dired, just give it a chance) (Reddit)
  • An "Open with" dialog for Dired (Reddit)
  • taxy.el: Example application "Diredy", groups files in Dired buffer by size and type (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs | Keeping a Journal In Org Mode (10:22)
  • Marcin Borkowski: How I avoid deleting large parts of Org buffers accidentally
  • org-icons: Making org-mode pretty with icons (Reddit)
  • Rewriting My Website In Org Mode (13:36) - Hugo
  • Timo Geusch: TIL that org-mode has an exporter for ODT
  • ob-browser: Render HTML inside Emacs' org-mode (Reddit)
  • Org Roam:
    • Keep a Journal in Emacs with Org Roam
    • Org Roam: The Best Way to Keep a Journal in Emacs (Reddit)
    • Diving into the Implementation of Subject Menus for Org Roam // Take on Rules (Reddit)
    • My Braindump (Reddit) - org-roam and Hugo
    • How to embed handwritten content in your org-roam site (Reddit)
• Completion:
  • New package consult-bibtex
  • Configurando emacs con org #2 ivy-posframe, ivy , counsel and swiper (17:48)
• Coding:
  • Using Emacs in an IDE world (Reddit, HN) - ansi-term
• Spacemacs:
  • Spacemacs Ultimate Cheatsheet (2020)
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread - getting coordinates from a PDF, xdragon
  • How extensible is emacs?
  • If you could change one thing about Emacs what would it be? (also on HN)
  • Emacs Modernization: Simple Changes Emacs Should Adopt (2006, HN)
  • The Rise Of User-Hostile Software (Reddit)
  • Vi vs Vim vs Emacs (Irreal)
  • The Emacs community bought Protesilaos (aka Prot) a new PC (Reddit)
  • System Crafters bringing some light about the EXWM situation (2:04:54, Reddit)
  • zaeph joined the mod team for r/emacs
  • Hiring a Doom Emacs tutor
• Other:
  • crdt.el, the collaborative editing package, now on GNU ELPA! (related HN discussion)
  • Reformat paragraph (Reddit) - cycling through fill options, including putting sentences on separate lines
  • Whipping Up a Quick Emacs Helper Function for Hugo // Take on Rules
  • Norm: XML Unicode 1.25
  • eventuel: A special minor mode for sending events from Emacs to an external REST API
  • Adding More Tag Rendering Functions for SHR in Emacs // Take on Rules (Reddit)
  • elfeed-yt-dl: Download your YouTube entries in elfeed as video/audio files (Reddit)
• New packages:
  • crdt: collaborative editing using Conflict-free Replicated Data Types
  • taxy: Programmable taxonomical grouping for arbitrary objects
  • vc-backup: VC backend for versioned backups
  • finito: View and collect books
  • germanium: Generate image from source code using germanium
  • lyrics-fetcher: Fetch song lyrics and album covers
  • minibuffer-modifier-keys: Use spacebar as a modifier key in the minibuffer
  • puni: Parentheses Universalistic
  • sidecar-locals: A flexible alternative to built-in dir-locals

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.