My favourite post this week was oantolin's tip about using Eww. It's always interesting to see what people can do when they apply Emacs's power and composability to all sorts of things, including evaluating code snippets from webpages. Outside Emacs, there was a lively conversation on HN about personal software. Enjoy!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed May 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat May 23 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 May 27 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/GMT - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu May 28 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #6 2026 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/67d716c3-6c04-4530-9c1a-f67aa44d31bc Mon Jun 1 1900 CET
• Upcoming events:
  • Sacha Chua: May 29: Emacs Chat with Omar Antolin Camarena
• Emacs configuration:
  • dotfiles/emacs/windows/.emacs.d at main · scovl/dotfiles · GitHub (@lobocode@hachyderm.io)
  • May I recommend… to only add items to your init files you understand and document | Martin's Blog
  • May I recommend declaring bankruptcy from time to time | acdw.net
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Charles Choi: Enhancing Elisp Development with Context Menus (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Amin Bandali: FFS code review and Emacs extensibility with Protesilaos (Prot)
  • Elisp Cheatsheet for Python Programmers - updated (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Appearance:
  • How to automatically scale emacs to a larger font on startup (on Raspberry Pi) (22:22)
• Navigation:
  • fastctags 0.0.1 — Blazing-fast code nav & completion with Universal Ctags (Reddit)
  • purr.el - a lightweight project dashboard for emacs. (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • hesampakdaman/typst-overlay · GitHub
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] LaTeX survey
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Round priorities in iCalendar export
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] org-colview: Where should a new COLUMNS keyword be inserted?
  • Rezeptsammlung mit Emacs | Jan Iversen (@razorback@nerdculture.de)
  • Navi – Obsidian-style org-roam graph viewer – native window – reads your DB directly
  • Amy Pillow: Added notification actions in Org yaap - yet another alert package
  • Org Social for iOS: A decentralized microblog where your whole timeline lives in a plain-text Org Mode file you host yourself
  • #orgmode #emacs w/ its developer Ihor Radchenko, also screwlisp and JLamothe #lispyGopherClimate - toobnix (@screwtape@toobnix.org)
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Blogging mit Emacs - Howto | Jan Iversen (@razorback@nerdculture.de)
    • orgfs – A FUSE filesystem for org files (r/emacs, r/orgmode)
    • [ANN] Starter template for your own blog in Emacs Lisp (Reddit)
    • ox-html-file-embedding 0.3.0, embed scrollable CSVs with PapaParse/Tabulator, postprocess with monolith
  • Org development:
    • org-agenda-clock-goto: Jump to closest entry and respect filtering
    • Feature requests:
      • Org Mode requests: [FR] ox-md: Export custom-id search strings (::#) as anchors
      • Org Mode requests: [FR] ox-md: Verbatim link export
      • Org Mode requests: [FR] Re: [FR] Tracking numerical habits
      • Org Mode requests: [FR] Tracking Habits with Alternate Calendar
• Coding:
  • Dave Pearson: Stopping an accidental push
  • James Dyer: VC-Mode Meets Magit - or Why I Finally Gave In!
  • Moving from lsp-mode in GNU Emacs to Eglot (lobste.rs)
  • aardsoft/lempo: Emacs protocol analysis framework · GitHub
  • Dave's blog: Remote Linux kernel development with Emacs
  • Bozhidar Batsov: Port: a minimalist prepl client for Emacs
• Web:
  • May I recommend eww for Emacs's innovative UI? (Reddit, Irreal, lobste.rs)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Check for missing body, subject, or attachments before sending (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
  • Minimail version 0.5, with OAuth and more (Reddit)
  • Elfeed release & Elfeed sqlite database · emacs-elfeed/elfeed · Discussion #586 · GitHub (@minad@mastodon.world)
• AI:
  • Agent-Shell permission system (Reddit)
• Community:
  • What's So Special About Emacs? - YouTube
  • May I recommend… understanding Emacs's patterns (Reddit, Irreal, HN)
  • Emacs Carnival: May I recommend… stop messing around and get work done by Curtis McHale
  • The Most Emacs Bzr Saga (Reddit, lobste.rs, Irreal)
  • Sacha Chua: YE29: Sacha, Prot, and Philip Kaludercic Talk Emacs: Newcomer Experience (YouTube 01:24:16)
  • The Emacsification of Software — Quarrelsome (HN)
• Other:
  • Charles Choi: Using the Mouse for Emacs Rectangle Commands
  • Exam minimal Emacs, 42KL, try not to buy Armageddon Psychsparrow, what am I doing. (22:43, Reddit)
  • Some functions to make it easier to check for unexpected Unicode shenanigans (@zrzz@fosstodon.org)
  • hexmode/mediawiki-el: Emacs interface to edit any mediawiki site · GitHub (@katafrakt@genserver.social) - recently updated
  • James Dyer: A Tiny Nohup: Keeping Media Alive When Emacs Exits
  • r2r0/legion.el: Emacs mode for the Zammad help desk software - Codeberg.org (@r2r0@chaos.social) - vibecoded
  • Emacs Internal Part 04: Balancing Lisp_String Interval Trees by Text Length (Reddit)
  • Compiling Emacs for High Performance on Linux and Unix Systems (Reddit)
  • Tip for improving keyboard input latency by setting GTK_IM_MODULE=none (Linux, standard ASCII) (@jamescherti)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel: Challenges of opaque objects
  • Allow child processes to continue after EPIPE
  • Copy changes from tarballs when installing VC packages
• New packages:
  • rare-words: Highlight your rare words! (MELPA)

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