In this livestream, I showed Prot what I've been doing since our last conversation about Emacs configuration and livestreaming. I'll update this with chapter markers as I figure them out. In the meantime, here's the recording!

2026-04-16-01 Preparing for chat with Prot.jpeg

• Recap of my objectives:
  • Overall: capture and share more, create opportunities for conversation
  • Timeline:
    • April, May, June: take advantage of predictable-ish schedule and set up streams, chats
    • July, Aug: Focus on posts, videos, spontaneous streams
    • Sept-: prepare for EmacsConf, see what I can squeeze in at the same time
  • This session:
    • Share my updates, see if you have other ideas, hear what you've been learning about
• #YayEmacs 10: Emacs coaching with Prot: Emacs workflows and streaming
  • Emacs config modularization
    • Moved the functions of my config into .el files and renamed to sacha- prefix
    • Experimenting with using keyd for one-shot ctrl/alt/super modifiers on Linux
    • Used C-z to toggle live.org and C-Z to toggle now.org
    • Reading people's configs
  • Streaming
    • Set up mode for livestreaming and obs-websocket-el
      • Saves variables, changes agenda / refile targets / capture templates, changes theme, etc.
    • Planning upcoming videos / livestreams:
      • Looks like there's lots of interest in Emacs Chat (config demos)
        • Mastodon thread with interested people
        • Emacs Chat
      • I have a video call with jwiegley and Karthik which we will post afterwards
    • Watching lots of other people's videos, reading people's configs
    • Could have fun with a Thursday show-and-tell
  • Contributing upstream
    • Sent revised patch for org and sentence-at-point
    • Bumped into something in which-key which I want to tweak
• GNU Emacs configuration | Protesilaos Stavrou
• Sacha Chua's Emacs configuration

Questions I'm thinking about / areas I'm working on improving:

• (Log) Getting more out of livestreams (for yourself or others)
  • You've mentioned that you don't really go back to your videos to listen to them. I was wondering what could make the livestreamed recordings more useful to either the person who made them, people who watched it live, or people who come across it later.
  • Tradeoffs for livestreaming:
    • Plus: debugging help, capturing your thinking out loud, conversation, sharing more practices/tips
    • Minus: Fitting less stuff on screen, distractability
  • A few types of livestreams:
    • "I'm going to spend the time doing this anyway, I might as well open it up in case other people are interested."
      • Your package maintenance videos Emacs: live stream about maintaining the modus-themes - YouTube
      • My Emacs News categorization
      • People coding other things
      • Other types of tinkering with code, debugging, etc.
    • "I have something that I specifically want to teach/show."
      • After writing a post
      • Before writing a post
        • [2026-04-16 Thu 10:54] Leaving yourself breadcrumbs ZZZ consider also colour (font-lock-keywords), maybe occur
    • Reacting to other things
      • Config: YE15: Fiddling with my Emacs config and streaming setup - YouTube
    • Chatting with a guest
      • I had fun fiddling with my two-speaker workflow for whisperx and subed; hooray for the visual distinction between your subtitles and mine on Yay Emacs 10: Talking to Prot about Emacs workflows - YouTube =)
    • Chatting with the community, hanging out
    • Playing
  • (Log) Announcing livestreams
    • You add a post for scheduled/spontaneous livestreams and then you update it with the description; probably fine considering RSS readers - people can visit the page if it's finished

    • Debating whether to embed the channel livestream (picks next public scheduled stream, I think) or embed the specific livestream

    • Now on https://yayemacs.com (also https://sach.ac/live, https://sachachua.com/live)
    • Added timestamp translation to Embark keymap for timestamps, sacha-org-timestamp-in-time-zones
    • ☐ TODO: Post template
    • ☐ TODO: ical file
    • ☐ TODO: Easier workflow for embedding streams
    • ☐ TODO: Google API for scheduling a livestream
  • (Log) Processing the recordings
    • I like editing transcripts because that also helps me quickly split up chapters
    • Tracking chapters on the fly
    • Extracting screenshots and clips
    • Turning videos into blog posts (or vice versa)
    • ☐ TODO: Automate more of the downloading/transcription, common edits, Internet Archive uploads
• (Log) Do you sometimes find yourself copying non-packaged code from other people? How do you like to integrate it into your config, keep references to the source, check for updates?
  • convert defvar to defcustom

  • Current approach: autoload if possible; if not, add a note to the docstring

       (use-package prot-comment                ; TODO 2026-04-16:
        :load-path "~/vendor/prot-dotfiles/emacs/.emacs.d/prot-lisp"
              :commands (prot-comment-timestamp-keyword)
              :bind
              (:map prog-mode-map
                                      ("C-x M-;" . prot-comment-timestamp-keyword)))
    

       ;;;###autoload
    (defun sacha-org-capture-region-contents-with-metadata (start end parg)
      "Write selected text between START and END to currently clocked `org-mode' entry.
    
       With PARG, kill the content instead.
       If there is no clocked task, create it as a new note in my inbox instead.
    
       From https://takeonrules.com/2022/10/16/adding-another-function-to-sacha-workflow/, modified slightly so that it creates a new entry if we are not currently clocked in."
      (interactive "r\nP")
      (let ((text (sacha-org-region-contents-get-with-metadata start end)))
        (if (car parg)
            (kill-new text)
          (org-capture-string (concat "-----\n" text)
                              (if (org-clocking-p) "c"
                                "r")))))
    

  • prot-window: run a command in a new frame
  • ☐ Look into using keyd for tap and hold space?
  • ☐ header line format with common tips