• Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Jan 28 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Jan 29 0130 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs APAC: UPDATED Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/january-2026/ Sat Jan 31 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #2 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/d6225b76-8f80-46c7-bc14-35d21b0c5ef0 Mon Feb 2 1900 CET
• EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/312922157/ Thu Feb 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Fri Feb 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
• M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 6 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Feb 7 0000 Asia/Singapore

• dash.el for nice list operations
• Trevoke/mock-fs.el: "fake filesystem" for elisp test suites - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
• duckdb-query.el - Bidirectional DuckDB SQL/Elisp bridge: query parquet, CSV, org-tables, alists IN THE SAME SQL statement SEAMLESSLY (Reddit)

• indent-bars is now @v1.0 (Reddit)

• Three important distinctions in Emacs: mini buffer and echo, mark and point, window and frame (04:36)
• You can now merge tabs in emacs (Reddit)
• scroll-around.el: Scroll the view by paragraph or line while keeping the cursor at the same screen position. (Reddit) see alternatives in the comments
• Avy-flash: replicating flash.nvim in Emacs (vibe-coded) (Reddit) - note discussion in comments; you can just use avy-flash.el instead of the full fork of avy

• Why You Don’t Need a File Manager (If You Use Emacs) (13:47)

• Developing yet another way to do research in Emacs - fool's errand? (13:34) - highlighting EPUBs, taking notes, organizing, doing syntopic reading
• Emacs tricks DYI: surround src blocks in markdown (07:06)

• Berean Standard Bible in org mode (Reddit)
• Jack Baty: Blogging with org-mode and ox-hugo again
• How to Open Obsidian Links in Org Mode – Curtis McHale (YouTube 2:46, @curtismchale)
• Design Decisions: Building a Modern Technical Blog | Charlie Holland's Blog (Feature demo, Reddit) - org-mode and SvelteKit
• Org development:
  • ox-man: Add support for footer-inside and header-middle
  • org-lint: Add check for priorities
  • speed-commands: Adapt priority commands to user options

• Typing emojis with :shortcodes: in Emacs

• Fast JSON path extraction via Tree-sitter (Reddit) - will be part of Emacs 31
• Tree-sitter vs Language Servers (Reddit)

• Writing pipeline commands in Eshell
• Major mode for Nushell scripts, powered by treesitter (Reddit)

• Announcing Casual EWW (Reddit)

• punchagan: Elfeed DB backup hooks
• [Package] sign.el: an Emacs interface for Signal via signal-cli JSON-RPC. (Reddit)

• (Doom) Emacs Config Bits

• Sacha Chua: Emacs and whisper.el: Trying out different speech-to-text backends and models
• Yay Emacs live-coding: tweaking my whisper.el setup (46:11)

• OpenCode Agent Chaining: Planner-Editor-Review Workflow - ZashBoy.com
• dev-agent-backlog (org-mode system for coding agents) is now a claude plugin (Reddit)
• openspec.el - Interface for OpenSpec, a tool for spec-driven AI coding assistant development
• You can have Andrej Kaparthy's Council of LLMs anywhere: Antigravity! Claude Code! Emacs! (27:32)

• Emacs vs. vim Real World Analogy: Cargo Bike Vs. Folding Bike (@publicvoit@graz.social)
• Christian Tietze: Emacs Carnival 2026-01: “This Year, I’ll …”
  • This Year I'll… · Curious Musings
  • Emacs Carnival Jan 26: “This Year, I’ll de-obfuscate” | zimblog

• Another beautiful modeline: maple-modeline, and share some packages that I've written: maple-preview, -note, -translate, -iedit, -scratch, -diff, -minibuffer
• Emacs: easily set timers with TMR (14:33, Reddit)
• Emacs в 2026: Секретное оружие или старый хлам? |vim, vscode, lisp, org-mode|Podlodka Podcast #460 (01:43:00)
• Experimental Skia rendering backend as cairo alternative
• Unofficial Emacs Portable Binary v31.0.50 (Reddit) - Linux only

• emacs-devel: Re: Auto-suggesting Packages - Eli Zaretskii
• Add 'select-frame-by-id' and 'undelete-frame-by-id' (Bug#80192)
• Support cons cell for 'line-spacing'
• New bindings for vc-revert
• Flymake support for yaml-ts-mode.
• Add JSON path utility command to json-ts-mode
• (garbage-collect-heapsize): New function
• * lisp/tab-bar.el (tab-bar-split-tab): New command.

New packages:

• advent-mode: Advent of Code mode (MELPA)
• denote-review: implements review process for denote notes (GNU ELPA)
• devcontainer: Support for devcontainer (MELPA)
• magit-git-toolbelt: A Magit interface for git-toolbelt (MELPA)
• mu4e-llm: AI-powered email assistance for mu4e (MELPA)
• org-roam-latte: Auto-highlight unlinked Org-roam references (MELPA)
• ox-reveal-layouts: Predefined layouts for ox-reveal (MELPA)
• signel: Signal client for Emacs via signal-cli JSON-RPC (MELPA)
• tengo-mode: Major mode for the Tengo programming language (MELPA)
• ultisnips-mode: Major mode for editing Ultisnips snippets (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!