• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Jul 26 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jul 30 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1630 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2200 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jul 31 0030 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Aug 1 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Customizing the Emacs Help Menu (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Suppressing warning messages with (setq native-comp-async-report-warnings-errors 'silent)
  • kn66/package-git.el - automatic Git version control for Emacs packages (Reddit)
  • William Denton: I'm sticking with Emacs stable releases
  • Updating my home Emacs config | Dave’s Blog (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
  • Skewed Emacs (Reddit)
  • Single Emacs Config for Multiple Environments, Machines, and Users
  • Bedrock version 1.5.0 released (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • James Dyer: Building a New Package From Scratch - Cursor Heatmap Pt1
  • viglioni/l-el: l.el is a series of lisp functions and macros in order to make emacs-lisp more modern and functional (@laura.viglioni.com)
• Appearance:
  • [auto-dark] 0.13.3 - New minor version released!
  • Hercules theme (Reddit)
• Navigation:
  • Tip: follow-mode, two-column editing
• Dired:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: dired-preview version 0.6.0
• Writing:
  • Omar Antolin: Writing Experience (@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz)
  • From Obsidian to Emacs — Where Are The Wise Men? (@mikehoss@appdot.net)
  • Eric MacAdie: Emacs Carnival: Writing Experience
  • Writing Tools in Emacs - Emacs Writing Studio (19:22)
• Org Mode:
  • Chris Maiorana: Ask me about my Org Mode agenda (YouTube 5:50, Irreal)
  • better-org-habit.el: ️GAME-CHANGING package for org-habit (Reddit)
  • llcc/org-table-highlight: Highlight Org-mode table columns and rows using colored overlays (Reddit)
  • Polymacs - A SuperMemo-like package for incremental learning in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Org export: expanding links to included files - feature request
  • maybe executing Org Babel blocks in other modes
  • (Updated) org-supertag 4.0
  • Suppressing warnings in org-latex-preview
  • Org development:
    • Use Graphviz Dot mode if available
    • Fall back to Fundamental mode when editing code
• Completion:
  • Is the Default Emacs Completion UI Good? - System Crafters Live! (01:53:35)
• Coding:
  • kn66/project-checker.el - project-wide and file-specific checks in Emacs (Reddit)
  • treesitter note about ABI version change
  • Navigating Julia source code files using Xref in Emacs (@ericsfraga@fediscience.org)
  • Guile Stack Viewer, Metacommands in Arei, New Ares CLI, Custom Ports Backport | RDE Meetup #6 (26:35)
  • dheerajshenoy/cpp-func-impl.el: Emacs package to insert a C++ method implementation in the corresponding source file. (Reddit)
  • Leonardo Calculus Knowledge Representation: Object Oriented Simulation Simulation Lisp Useage (Great Example if I do say) (@screwlisp@gamerplus.org)
  • Some scripts for automating Magit
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Splitting the subject in Gnus summary subject lines | Dave’s Blog (@davemq@fosstodon.org)
• Multimedia:
  • The EMMS filter system | Zenie’s Qis (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
  • elfeed-tube now fetches YouTube video transcripts again (@gnomon@mastodon.social)
• Fun:
  • I made pomo-cat.el – A pomodoro timer that shows a chill cat in the center of your Emacs (Reddit)
• AI:
  • localredhead/ob-aider.el (Reddit)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-07-15 / week 28
  • Pain Thread: Recount Your Awful, No-Good Needless Suffering
  • Emacs changed my life as a fully blind programmer and part-time writer (Irreal)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Common questions about the ‘Prot Asks’ videos on Emacs and Life
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Thomas about Emacs writing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, sport culture, and manga
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Gino about Emacs for data engineering, Open Source, and Chile
  • Zac Romero: Emacs Discoverability
• Other:
  • Send To Buffer Minor Mode
  • TAONAW - yank-pop
  • twitchy-ears/metoffice-datahub-lib: Emacs package to query, display, and cache information from the Metoffice Datahub service (@morix@loci.onl)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Artist mode and Venn diagrams
  • DeadSwitch404/ds-vault: ds-vault is a minimal, hardened Emacs Lisp utility for encrypting, decrypting, and managing a KeePassXC-compatible password database using GnuPG. (@TomsITCafe@mastodon.social)
  • Thanos Apollo: Emacs Everywhere, even in Wayland (Irreal)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Emacs send-to (aka macOS sharing) merged upstream (r/emacs, also here, Irreal)
  • #79070 - [PATCH] Fix macOS dictation post NSTextInputClient migration in v30 - GNU bug report logs (@xenodium@indieweb.social) - testers wanted
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Discussion about thread-join, signal, and thread-signal
    • MacOS/NS Events Processing Queue - help wanted figuring out performance issue
  • Improve documentation of 'quit-window'
  • Remove the variable load-convert-to-unibyte
  • Add "Send to…" context menu item to mouse.el
  • Add more ways to exclude buffers in tab-line-mode. (Bug#78988)
• New packages:
  • awqat: Islamic prayer times (MELPA)
  • dock: Integration for desktop environment's taskbar/dock (MELPA)
  • emc: Invoking a C/C++ (et al.) build toolchain from ELisp (MELPA)
  • js-ts-defs: Find JavaScript variable definitions using tree-sitter (MELPA)
  • ninetyfive: NinetyFive (MELPA)
  • python-tdd-mode: Modern TDD Mode for Python (MELPA)
  • savefold: Persistence for various folding systems (MELPA)
  • vecdb: An interface to vector databases for embeddings (GNU ELPA)

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