Very niche, but I'm happy to see that nethack-el is actively being worked on again. I remember having a lot of fun with that. =)

Also, the theme for October's Emacs Carnival is maintenance. Check out the posts for September's theme of obscure packages, too!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/310983729/ Thu Oct 2 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/GMT – Fri Oct 3 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Oct 3 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Oct 8 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 9 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Oct 10 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • ZeniesQis/rrepo: Remote repository tracking and management. An exploration and discovery tool for Emacs configurations. - Codeberg.org (@Zenie@piaille.fr)
• Appearance:
  • Steven Allen: Dim Unfocused Minibuffer Prompts
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: the next ‘ef-themes’ will build on top of the ‘modus-themes’
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: ef-themes version 1.11.0
• Writing:
  • Chris Maiorana: Emacs For Writers Version 2 Has Arrived
  • Emacs as a Microsoft Word killer (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs: Cycle through different paragraph formats: all on one line, wrapped, max one sentence per line, one sentence per line (Irreal)
  • Announcing Casual BibTeX (Reddit)
  • Storing a Link from your Web Browser to BibTeX using Org protocol (Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Faking today's date in Org
  • (update) org-supertag: support tag inheritance (extends) (Reddit)
  • (update) org-workbench: Add export and help, fix ID detection
  • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: a LaTeX letter that includes PDFs and hyperlinked page numbers
  • Why Org Social when you can use… anything? | Andros Fenollosa (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Org-Roam-UI… oder: Wie wurde die Notizvorschau repariert. | Jan Iversen (@razorback@nerdculture.de)
  • IANA adopts text/org MIME type
  • Org development:
    • org-id: Implement org-insert-link completion for ID links
    • org-refile: Allow matching "all headings" in org-refile-targets
    • Support arrow keys and mouse wheel in export dispatcher
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: example of a custom Denote identifier to include day of week data
• Completion:
  • Randy Ridenour: An Obscure Emacs Package: Yankpad (Irreal)
• Coding:
  • Kisaragi Hiu: How I currently (2025) set up Emacs for C++ and CMake
  • Andrea: How to make ob-python and UV work together (Reddit)
  • James Cherti: Emacs enhanced-evil-paredit.el package: Preventing Parenthesis Imbalance when Using Evil-mode with Paredit
  • James Cherti: Emacs flymake-ansible-lint.el – A Flymake backend for ansible-lint
  • James Cherti: Emacs flymake-bashate.el – A Flymake backend for bashate that provides style checking for Bash shell scripts within Emacs
  • 2025-09-26 MyCmd and MyProject Weekly Progress Report: 2025 Week 39 (@travisbhartwell@mastodon.social)
  • Emacs tree sitter integration AND it's published (04:39)
• Shells:
  • ICYMI: Emacs 29+ term-mode supports ANSI 256-color and 24-bit color!
• Fun:
  • progfolio/wordel: Wordle in Emacs (@XLBilly@social.vivaldi.net)
• AI:
  • (Release) Emacs front-end integrating multiple AI coding CLI tools, ai-code-interface.el
  • Vibe Coding an Emacs Package (Reddit, HN)
  • My experience using LLM's for checking ELisp
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Introducing Emacs agent-shell (powered by ACP) (Reddit)
  • For Claude Code writing Elisp, add a hook blocking unbalanced parens
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Who is that actor on the screen? Emacs/LLM/Fun Redux
  • Emacs + GPTel: A Scientist's AI Notebook (14:44)
  • Studying Strategy (in Emacs (for writing an OS)) (44:30)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-09-23 / week 38
  • EmacsWiki Blog Carnival "Maintenance" | Plain DrOps (@spacecadet@masto.plaindrops.de)
  • Eric MacAdie: 2024-09 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Ekaitz about Guix, bootstrapability, FOSS advocacy, and the Basque country
  • Emacs? (@simon@social.sgawolf.com)
• Other:
  • RDF Editor: tools for working with large amounts of linked data
  • James Dyer: Planning my Weekly Meals in Emacs!
  • Tags, Not Taxonomies
  • Jakub Nowak: Obscure Package (?): tmr - timer
  • Caledonia: command-line and Emacs calendar client
  • Michal Sapka: My Software philosophy (Irreal)
  • Guys, updates from eldoc-mouse, display document on a popup for mouse hover.
  • James Cherti: inhibit-mouse.el – Deactivate mouse input in Emacs (Alternative to disable-mouse)
  • Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander (Reddit)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Incremental garbage collector feature in the works for Emacs on MS Windows (Reddit)
    • J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Use a more responsive Emacs by testing the IGC development branch
  • emacs-devel: Re: Should accept-process-output reliably return early? (long discussion)
  • Detect suspicious email addresses in Rmail and Sendmail
  • Restore mouse line dragging in character increments (Bug#79351)
  • (electric-indent-actions): Add missing NEWS
  • Navigate Completions buffer based on 'completions-format'
• New packages:
  • elchacha: Elisp ChaCha20 implementation (MELPA)
  • git-bug: Conviences for git-bug local-first issues (MELPA)
  • insta-pocket: Instapaper client (MELPA)
  • kaomel: A snappy kaomoji picker (MELPA)
  • nethack: Run Nethack as a subprocess (MELPA)
  • procress: Process progress (MELPA)
  • tabbymacs: Inline AI code completions via Tabby LSP (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, Mastodon #emacs, Bluesky #emacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, programming.dev, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, 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!