I liked the before/after snippets in Looking closer at Claude Generated Lisp Code. (Spoiler: people write nicer code.)

• Help wanted:
  • Demo site for a proposed re-design of the GNU ELPA (emacs-devel, Reddit) - feedback wanted
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
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• Emacs configuration:
  • Rahul Juliato: Taming Emacs Cache and Temporary Files (Reddit)
  • jamesendreshowell/emacs-config: My public Emacs configuration files - Codeberg.org (@jameshowell@fediscience.org)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp - Hyperpolyglot (HN, lobste.rs)
• Appearance:
  • James Endres Howell: Match Emacs and GNOME light/dark theme
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: ef-arcadia and ef-atlantis are part of the ef-themes
• Navigation:
  • TIL: setting line number type to "visual" fixes relative jumping on wrapped lines
• TRAMP:
  • Using TRAMP to compile in toolbox (@cidra@mastodon.uno)
• Dired:
  • Marcin Borkowski: Marking today’s files in Dired (Irreal)
• Writing:
  • TAONAW: Checking grammar with Harper
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: Denote version 4.2.0
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] org-agenda log-mode is very confusing
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] support footnote inline displaying & navigation
  • Wai Hon: Refining Org-mode Deadlines
  • You can do what with org agenda? (08:54)
  • How I finally hid stars in front of org headings while also using org-indent
  • Vineet Naik: tagref can now be used with org-mode files
  • build blog with orgmode and github pages (@lobocode@hachyderm.io)
  • Annotate-in-Place Notes with Emacs and org-remark (YouTube 18:15, r/orgmode, r/emacs, HN, Irreal)
  • Navi - Personal Org-Roam Graph Window - Reads DB directly - Feedback? (Reddit)
  • org-roam-gt: faster node search and richer capture targets for org-roam (Reddit)
  • grove-extra.el – some extras on top of grove.el (fa2 graph, md etc.) (Reddit) - grove is a note-taking mode
• Completion:
  • dl-completion: Custom completion-style (Reddit)
  • vertico-carousel: keep the selected Vertico candidate on the first visible row (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • A small write-up of git blaming in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Dave Pearson: next-gh-pr.el v1.0.0
  • Bozhidar Batsov: neat: a language-agnostic nREPL client for Emacs
  • sdkman.el — per-project SDKMAN environments in Emacs
  • Jakub Nowak: New Job: Jira Integration
• Math:
  • ratex.el: A live preview latex math package. (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Doom Emacs Mail Sending and Python Way (03:15)
• AI:
  • Looking closer at Claude Generated Lisp Code | skybert.net (@skybert@hachyderm.io)
  • Emacsclient landed in Gemini CLI, and why I won't contribute to non-FOSS projects again
  • martenlienen/emcp: An MCP server for Emacs - Codeberg.org (@martenlienen@hachyderm.io)
  • An experimental Markdown renderer by xenodium · Pull Request #597 · xenodium/agent-shell · GitHub (@xenodium.bsky.social)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-05-19 / week 20
  • Concerning Emacs (and Jazz)
  • "May I recommend thinking of Emacs as your Fortress of Solitude" (Reddit)
  • Brazilians in the community 🇧🇷 - organizing get-togethers or a communications channel?
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 23: Emacs Chat with Raymond Zeitler (YouTube, 58:44)
  • #Emacs #Embark with Omar Antolin, Ramin Honary and Kent Pitman #lisp and more #interview #lispyGopherClimate - toobnix (1:12:40, Reddit)
  • From Emacs to Agents - Vivek Haldar shifting away from Emacs for now
  • Apropos with Bozhidar Batsov - YouTube (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • Amin Bandali: Thinking about life - chat with Protesilaos (Prot)
• Emacs development:
  • Re: emacs-31 142b1e0d4c3: Fix Lisp injection via X-Draft-From in Gnus - Eli Zaretskii
  • Why braces instead of casts (Re: master 56ae704e5b2 1/7: Fix (ash -1 1) undefined behavior - Paul Eggert)
• Other:
  • Faça o Emacs olhar para o dinheiro usando o Embark (15:44)
  • May I recommend using your thumbs (Irreal)
  • my i3-emacs integration (HN) i3 is a window manager
  • caffeinate-mode: Prevent your system from sleeping using the native power assertion API in Emacs 31+ (Reddit)
  • A possible security layer for emacs
• New packages:
  • clutch: Interactive database client (MELPA)
  • ffs: Form feed-separated plain text presentations (GNU ELPA)
  • fzf-native: Fuzzy completion style (MELPA)
  • meshtastic: Chat client for Meshtastic LoRa devices via serial (MELPA)
  • use-package-x: Additional keywords for use-package (MELPA, Reddit)

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