Why I Keep Blogging With Emacs is a short blog post that got a lot of comments on HN this week. Also, xenodium is trying out making videos, starting with batch-applying command-line utilities.

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Paris: S: Emacs workshop in Paris (online) https://emacs-doctor.com/ Tue Oct 7 0830 America/Vancouver - 1030 America/Chicago - 1130 America/Toronto - 1530 Etc/GMT - 1730 Europe/Berlin - 2100 Asia/Kolkata - 2330 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #10 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/b2ff9efd-eee0-414a-a933-90c4abc20dbe Tue Oct 7 1900 CET
  • 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
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Oct 15 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Super simple Emacs config (05:51)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Guys, eldoc-mouse v1.0.0 released! (Reddit)
  • Listful Andrew: Democratize can now offer more than 6000 Emacs Lisp usage examples
• Appearance:
  • mini-posframe — mirror your minibuffer in a floating frame (demo inside) (Reddit)
  • Pragmatic Opacity w/ Emacs (10:49)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: building on top of the Modus themes
    • ‘modus-themes’ as a basis for other themes; ‘ef-themes’ is first
    • ‘standard-themes’ are also built on top of the ‘modus-themes’
• Navigation:
  • Disproject v2.2.0 released - Dispatch project commands with Transient (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Improving dired-show-file-type
• Writing:
  • Emacs Abbrev Mode vs Microsoft Word Autocorrect (33:22, Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Why I Keep Blogging With Emacs (HN, Irreal)
  • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: calculating table sums using tag hierarchies
  • (update) org-supertag: support org-link convert to embed-block, fixed table view filter
  • How to Manage AWS IAM Roles with Emacs Org Mode | Full Tutorial (05:23)
  • Irreal: Org-transclusion
  • Jack Baty: CalDAV to my Emacs Diary - getting Fastmail calendar to show up in Org Agenda
  • [BLOG] #21 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]​] on Wed, August 13, 19:00 UTC+3
  • org-social v2: new interface, avatars, thread nav, relays (@andros@activity.andros.dev, Reddit)
  • Orgdeep: Write plain Org Mode file and serve them as HTML without any explicit export step (Reddit)
  • Org development:
    • etc/ORG-NEWS (Add completion for ID links): Mention `org-id-completion-targets'
• Denote:
  • Lambda Land: How I Organize the Papers I Read (Irreal) denote-citar
• Completion:
  • Hanno: Find recently modified files using vertico in Emacs
• Coding:
  • hare-mode updated for current language specs (@grafov@fosstodon.org)
  • Evil + Magit: evil-collection-magit-toggle-text-mode activates text-mode
• Math:
  • Disabling MathJax in Brightspace - Sociology, statistics and software (@bthalpin@mastodon.social) - includes Org snippet
• Web:
  • Talking to the Wayback Machine // Just a Summary (@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org)
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: Doodling icons in a grid
• AI:
  • Building workflows with gptel
  • Emacs RAG with LibSQL - Enabling semantic search of org-mode headings with Claude Code (18:57)
  • Emacs. Your Customizable AI Control Center with the llm Package (02:09)
  • Laurent Charignon: Building Software Faster with LLMs: Part 3 - Higher-Level Abstractions (org-roam via MCP)
    • Part 4 - The Way We Build Software Is Rapidly Evolving - code-review-logger
• Community:
  • Emacs philosophy thread (continued)
  • What is the point? | Zenie’s Qis (@Zenie@piaille.fr) - on writing an obscure package
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Prot Asks: Christian about indie dev, philosophy of experiences, Zettelkasten
• Other:
  • My Morning Routine in Emacs | Andros Fenollosa (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Bending Emacs - Episode 1: Applying CLI utils (YouTube 06:16, Reddit, Irreal)
  • RDF-editor: viewing, understanding and editing linked data in emacs (a work in progress)
  • GTD List Manager and Emacs (55:55) - low resolution video, though.
  • J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Emacs Garbage collection improvements by using the GCMH package
  • File management with fsel, draft integration with dired
  • Announcing twen-twen-tw.el: A package to reduce eye strain (Reddit)
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: tmr version 1.2.0
  • Emacs users who bank with the UK Starling Bank - feat(starling.el): Added insight table by abdrysdaleGitHub (@draxil@social.linux.pizza)
  • Irreal: Eliminating Emacs “Bloat”
  • Getting meta-based Emacs shortcuts to work in Kitty terminals
• Emacs development:
  • Run buffer-local window change functions in their buffers now
  • Add fallback backend in auth-sources
  • VC: New commands for cherry-picking (bug#79408)
  • Improve log-view-copy-revision-as-kill
  • New command log-view-copy-revision-as-kill
  • New command log-view-unmark-all-entries
  • New command vc-kill-other-working-tree-buffers
  • VC: Allow deleting or moving current working tree
  • New value 'window' of 'global-hl-line-sticky-flag'
• New packages:
  • bmp: Version bumper for git projects (MELPA)
  • cacao-theme: Based on a image reversal (MELPA)
  • elkee: Keepass client (MELPA)
  • hare-mode: Hare mode (MELPA)
  • ob-ts-node: Org-Babel support for TypeScript via ts-node (MELPA)
  • ziggy-mode: Major mode for Ziggy, a data serialization language (MELPA)

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