I enjoyed reading Hot-wiring the Lisp machine (an adventure into modifying Org publishing). I'm also looking forward to debugging my Emacs Lisp better with timestamped debug messages and ert-play-keys. I hope you also find lots of things you like in the links below!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Apr 25 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Apr 29 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Apr 30 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri May 1 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • How do you keep track of new/useful keybindings?
• Emacs configuration:d
  • What modern Emacs packages am I missing?
  • Meow made me leave Evil Mode (17:00)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • What are some common code smells that inexperienced Elispers make?
  • Updated kickingvegas/elisp-for-python - improved sections on map types and iteration (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
  • load settings from files sorted by number (@cage@mastodon.bsd.cafe)
  • dmsg.el: Timestamped debug messages with backtrace support (Reddit)
  • Defining λ as a macro for lambda (@marcel@van-der-boom.nl)
  • Listful Andrew: Mars Rovers IV: The Solutions — Emacs Lisp
  • Listful Andrew: Mars Rovers IX: The Grid Viz Solutions — Emacs Lisp
• Appearance:
  • Loading the theme and user face customizations at the right moment
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: new modus-themes-exporter package (YouTube 2:56:36)
  • faff theme v4.0; now using modus-themes (Reddit)
  • folio-theme: a warm paper-like light theme for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs Redux: Batppuccin and Tokyo Night Themes Land on MELPA
• Navigation:
  • Emacs Query Replace Is A Bloody Good Way To Make Quick Changes 2026 04 15 02:51:42 (05:33)
  • Irreal: A Short Report On Help Focus
  • Tip about using consult-focus-lines
• Dired:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Binding TAB in Dired to something useful (Irreal)
  • James Dyer: Emacs-DIYer: A Built-in dired-collapse Replacement
  • casual 2.16.0: improvements to Dired for marked file operations and context-sensitive behavior (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Writing:
  • Dave Pearson: boxquote.el v2.4 - added a transient
  • Dave Pearson: blogmore.el v4.1 - change image extension to webp
  • Launching a new grammar/spell checking tool for Org-mode, LaTeX, Markdown, Python, Clang, etc. (Reddit)
  • ekg version 0.9.0: New notes UI, Apple Notes Syncing, agentic actions and org integration (YouTube 21:36)
• Org Mode:
  • Remember everything with Org Mode (10:17)
  • Organizing my retirement with org-mode – Andy Sylvester's Web
  • Org-roam pour la prise de notes (avec Spacemacs) (20:37)
  • org-auto-scheduler (r/emacs, r/orgmode)
  • folgezett.el a package for Org-Roam users (Reddit)
  • Avoiding mismatched Org versions by removing ELPA/MELPA packages and other Org performance tips (@publicvoit@graz.social)
  • Emacs as a Math Notebook and Advanced Symbolic Solver! (Irreal)
  • #28 bbb:OrgMeetup on Wed, March 11, 19:00 UTC+3 - meeting notes (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Graphs in Org-Mode! Matplotlib Demo (Reddit)
    • [EMACS LAB] #4: "literate" programming (org-babel) (01:38:44)
    • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Drop GoogleCL from LoB + ideas for a replacement?
    • James Endres Howell: Embedding a Mastodon thread as comments to a blog post - org-static-blog-emfed
    • Sacha Chua: Org Mode: JS for translating times to people's local timezones
    • Sacha Chua: Create a Google Calendar event from an Org Mode timestamp
    • Recent Features Added to lazyblorg (Static Blog Generator) (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
    • Hot-wiring the lisp machine (Reddit, lobste.rs) - modifying publishing
  • Org development:
    • New function org–forward-sentence-thing-at-point-provider
• Completion:
  • Completion is a Substrate, not a UI (Reddit, lobste.rs)
  • VOMPECCC: A Modular Completion Framework for Emacs (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • Tip about using eglot-extend-to-xref
  • New Package: eglot-rcpp for simplifying Rcpp package development in emacs (Reddit)
  • Scheme for Beginners 2: Guile and Emacs (04:56)
  • Shipit update: Atlassian Dashboard for Jira, PR↔issue linking, and activity-level notification navigation
  • [Showcase] k8s-to-puml: Deterministic Kubernetes diagrams from your manifests using Tree-sitter and GOFAI rules (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Gal Buki: Clipboard in terminal Emacs with WezTerm
• Web:
  • paw browser extension can now manage tabs and send tab info, copy links to Emacs (Reddit) Chrome/Firefox extension for sending page context via org-protocol
• Doom Emacs:
  • My Doom Emacs config for software development — 150 lines covering LSP, Magit, org-roam, and a custom dashboard
• Multimedia:
  • el-gpu (Video 1:46, 79M)
  • YE17: Livestream conveniences, editing yesterday's transcript (50:50)
  • Sacha Chua: Make chapter markers and video time hyperlinks easier to note while I livestream
• Fun:
  • Dave Pearson: wordcloud.el v1.4
  • Dave Pearson: slstats.el v1.11 - Second Life grid
• AI:
  • Agentic development workflow in Emacs
  • anvil.el — Forge Emacs into Claude Code's weapon (Reddit)
  • Headless Emacs + Org + LLMs in Docker as a backend for personal automation (Reddit)
  • Announcing llm-test, a very high-level testing framework for Emacs (Reddit)
• Community:
  • VSCode too SLOW | switch to Emacs and go to PLAID (06:59)
  • Cocinándose la renovación de la Web… | Hacia la Hispa-Emacs Conf. 2026 ! (@hispaemacs@fosstodon.org)
  • Sacha Chua: YE16: Sacha and Prot talk Emacs
  • Eric MacAdie: 2026-04 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • 26: Why You'll Never Switch Editors (And What You're Missing)
• Other:
  • Tip about setting w32-use-visible-system-caret to nil on Windows
  • # omarchy.el - Emacs integration for Omarchy (Reddit)
  • trust-manager.el — Towards Trust in Emacs (Reddit, HN, long discussion on emacs-devel)
  • emskin: a nested Wayland compositor in Rust that embeds any app into Emacs windows (Reddit)
  • Dave's blog: Posframe for everything
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • External loops and Emacs: state machines vs two C stacks - Vladimir Kazanov
    • Re: Alternative Emacs logo - Philip Kaludercic (SVG)
    • RE: Translation of manuals (was: SES manual French translation) - Vincent Belaïche - texinfo bug for UTF-8
  • Restrict Dired handling of newlines in file names
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Presentational fixes and improvements.
  • Announce ert-play-keys in etc/NEWS.
  • New faces 'tab-line-active' and 'tab-line-inactive' (bug#80742)
• New packages:
  • agent-recall: Search and browse agent-shell conversation transcripts (MELPA)
  • batppuccin: Shared infrastructure for Batppuccin themes (MELPA)
  • citar-vulpea: Minor mode integrating Citar and Vulpea (MELPA)
  • comet-trail: Cursor comet trail effect (MELPA)
  • elixir-iex: IEx REPL via eat terminal emulator (MELPA)
  • go-prettify-mode: Hide `if err != nil' and prettify them (MELPA)
  • hidepass: Hide passwords at one or multiple lines (MELPA)
  • http-server: Speaks HTTP for you (MELPA)
  • modus-ewal-theme: Modus theme that uses pywal colors powered by ewal (MELPA)
  • python-unicode-escape: Completion for Python \N{NAME} escapes (MELPA)
  • rimel: A lightweight Rime input method (MELPA)
  • rocq-timing: Display timing of rocq commands in buffer (MELPA)
  • sidebuf: Buffer list sidebar panel (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!