Ihor Radchenko is organizing a new virtual Org meetup on Aug 9. Check it out!

• Emacs 29:
  • Emacs 29.1 released (Reddit, HN, lobste.rs, Irreal)
  • Mickey Petersen: What's New in Emacs 29.1? (Reddit, lemmy, Irreal)
  • What's new in Emacs 29 - Some Great New Features (12:19, Irreal)
  • Emacs Redux: Emacs 29.1 Released (programming.dev)
  • package.el from Emacs 29 added feature for easily upgrading packages. I just wrote a small wrapper script for it. (Reddit)
  • Erik L. Arneson: Installing Emacs 29.1 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Upcoming events:
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/294639359/ Wed Aug 2 1630 America/Vancouver - 1830 America/Chicago - 1930 America/Toronto - 2330 Etc/GMT – Thu Aug 3 0130 Europe/Berlin - 0500 Asia/Kolkata - 0730 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Aug 4 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Aug 4 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Aug 5 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Aug 5 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/294960498/ Sat Aug 5 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Aug 6 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2023-07/msg00536.html Wed Aug 9 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 10 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Aug 11 1800 Europe/Paris
• Beginner:
  • たのしむ、Emacs: 修飾キーのきほん (06:25)
  • たのしむ、Emacs: カーソル移動系コマンド (07:25)
  • たのしむ、Emacs: テキスト編集コマンド (09:37)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Configurar Emacs usando emacs-lisp (0x0005) (43:54)
  • define a custom keybinding in emacs (01:49)
  • Magnus: Making keymaps prettier with general.el
  • Devil v0.6.0 released: Now easier to type M- than C-M- (example: , m x becomes M-x) (Reddit,)
  • 21天学会Emacs之第十四天：精选Emacs插件和我的Evil工作流 (21:31)
  • Viper: Built-in Vi Keys for Emacs - My Tweaks (08:13)
  • John Wiegley's literate Emacs configuration
  • slk500's Emacs Config
  • pprevos' Emacs configuration
  • Unixbhaskar's Emacs Config
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Mike Zamansky: Learning Elisp 4 - Rot13 part 1 (communick.news, Irreal)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: write a custom mode line (41:54, YouTube, Reddit, Irreal, Invidious)
  • indent-bars: fast, configurable indentation guide bars using font-lock and stipple patterns (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Window Commander: A minor mode for switching to windows or performing actions on them using IDs assigned to them automatically
• Writing:
  • Custom has: filter · emacs-citar/citar Wiki · GitHub
  • 0066. Emacs, howm, самоучитель (03:26)
• Org Mode:
  • Emacs and Pomodoro - My Workflow (07:13)
  • Jeremy Friesen: Dynamic Org Agenda List Based on Denote Keywords
  • Jeremy Friesen: Implementing Changes to Org-Mode Time Tracking
  • Jeremy Friesen: Revisiting My Org-Mode Time Tracking and Laying out a Different Direction
  • rolodex.org - This package provides a way to easily reference contacts in various org files (Reddit)
  • Tory Anderson: Tangling on org segment to a file with given permissons
  • org-timeblock: Get Google calendar view into your agenda timeline (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • ox: New option `org-export-expand-links'
• Coding:
  • GitHub - buzztaiki/lice-el: License And Header Template
  • Mickey Petersen: Combobulate: Editing and Searching with the new Query Builder (Reddit) - tree-sitter
  • Unwound Stack: Emacs as a Rust IDE
• Shells:
  • Terminal Velocity: Eshell, vterm, and Eat - System Crafters Live! (01:52:08)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Email configuration for Emacs (r/emacs, r/planetemacs) - Mail-in-a-box, isync, mu4e
  • Tony Zorman: Notmuch: Warn on Empty Subjects
• Doom Emacs:
  • doom-meow: A meow module for Doom Emacs (Reddit)
• Multimedia:
  • James Dyer: Shrinking Media With The Help Of Emacs
  • filktex support
  • Viewing Videos in EWW(!?) (Emacs 29.1 required)
  • Search Youtube with w3m or Emacs eww using Invidious (01:00:45)
• AI:
  • Khoj AI: Chat Offline with your Second Brain using Llama 2 (Reddit, HN)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: A cure for JavaScript fatigue? - chatgpt-shell
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread
  • System Crafters Newsletter: Issue #1 (Reddit) site; sorting Org tasks, filling; devil
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: my Free Software Foundation “working together” page
• Other:
  • romkan.el: Romaji/Kana conversion library for Emacs. (HN)
  • Introduction to ekg, the Emacs Knowledge Graph (Feb 2023, Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs: scan this QR/bar code (Reddit, Irreal)
  • On Emacs GUI libraries (Reddit)
  • A bad Emacs hair day (Reddit)
  • Android Emacs now appears to be stable
  • Tinylisp and Multi-threaded Emacs
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Continued discussion re: concurrency via isolated process/thread, goals and challenges
    • Follow up on LaTeX filter performance
  • Drop duplicate vietnamese-tcvn coding system
  • New user option 'image-dired-thumb-naming'
  • notifications: Allow to use Icon Naming Specification for app-icon
  • New option 'image-dired-thumb-naming' (bug#61394)
  • New user option 'uniquify-dirname-transform'
  • Fix build –with-sound on NetBSD and OpenBSD
• New packages:
  • buildbot: A Buildbot client for emacs (GNU ELPA)
  • company-spell: Autocompleting spelling for Company (MELPA)
  • igist: List, create, update and delete GitHub gists (MELPA)
  • nezburn-theme: A low contrast color theme for Emacs (inspired by zenburn). (MELPA)
  • term-project: Terminal management for project.el (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, kbin, programming.dev, communick.news, lemmy, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!