The canvas patch has been merged upstream, very cool! I'm looking forward to seeing the kinds of experiments and tools this enables. Also, there's a release candidate for the next version of Emacs, please go try it out!

• Emacs 31:
  • Emacs 31.1 RC1 is available (HN)
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Aug 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Aug 22 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/UTC - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin: Emacs-Berlin Hybrid Meetup https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Aug 26 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Aug 27 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/316144053/ Sat Aug 29 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • Sacha Chua: 27 août: Emacs Chat: Fabrice Niessen (en français, partie 2)
• Beginner:
  • My Advice for Users Wanting to Switch to Emacs | bardman's website
• Emacs configuration:
  • Raymond Zeitler: Emacs Numbered Backup Strategy (Irreal)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • What I learned about widget.el while building TextUI 0.2–0.5
  • Run Elisp code currently in reused sub-processes using futur (@monnier@oldbytes.space)
• Appearance:
  • TAONAW: Back to Solarized
  • Protesilaos: About Emacs themes, Solarized, and wallpapers
• Navigation:
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Focus windows across Emacs frames
• Writing:
  • emado: manage 100k+ markdown entries from Emacs at native speed (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • De-bloat Your Notes With Denote.el (17:42)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] org-colview: Determine column view scope once
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] Add org-delete-subtree without modifying the kill ring
  • Introduction to Org Mode (26:57)
  • Utilize texto puro para gerenciar seus hábitos (11:42)
  • Raymond Zeitler: How Much Management Does Knowledge Need?
  • Marcin Borkowski: Emphasizing a region in Org mode (Irreal)
  • Pretty titles for Org Mode buffers in Emacs - @joarvarndt.se on Bluesky
  • Using noweb syntax and elisp to manage host-specific dotfiles (Reddit)
  • Capture dotfiles using org-capture
  • Org-draw: Drawing inside org-mode using tl;draw (Reddit, YouTube 03:35)
  • [Notes] #3 OrgDevMeetup on Sat, August 15, 19:00 UTC+3 (recording, @yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Org development:
    • Suport for sentences for thing-at-point
    • lisp/ox-html.el: Add missing keywords and `#+OPTIONS:' in backend options-alist
• Coding:
  • A Tour of Magit's Status Interface (Reddit, @heiwiper)
  • Revisiting Flymake and Flycheck in GNU Emacs (as of Flycheck v39) (@chris_siebenmann@robot.villas)
  • Magit – Brief demo of "Instant Fixup" (01:22)
  • blog.fidelramos.net – Custom git trailers with Magit (HN)
    • Añadir nuevos git trailers a Magit
  • A Magit-inspired diff mode for Jujutsu (jj) (Reddit)
  • Magnus: Emacs salmagundi, 2026-08-13 - limiting treesit, using editable xref
  • omidmnz/quint-ts-mode: A Tree-sitter-based Emacs major mode for Quint · GitHub (@omidmnz@functional.cafe)
  • ediprolog — Emacs Does Interactive Prolog (27:24)
  • justjoheinz/wit-ts-mode: Emacs tree-sitter major mode for WIT (WebAssembly Interface Types) files · GitHub, also WAC (WebAssembly Composition) mode (Reddit)
  • Meta Redux: Projectile 3.4
• Shells:
  • emacs-run-command/run-command-runner-ghostel.el at ghostel · bricka/emacs-run-command · GitHub (@cabhan@social.tchncs.de)
• Web:
  • Andros Fenollosa: Web Design for Terminal Browsers (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
  • Andros Fenollosa: Elpher: my tweaks for better Gemini browsing in Emacs (@andros@activity.andros.dev)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Update Reddigg is now a fullblown reddit client (Reddit)
  • Elfeed performance improvements (@minad@mastodon.world)
• Multimedia:
  • Uniline goes 2.5 Dimensions
• Fun:
  • Corwin Brust: Emacs Card Games on MELPA
• LLMs:
  • New package: reviewer.el (Reddit) - temporarily annotating files or diffs without modifying the contents
  • Demo: Browse the web in the Emacs Web Browser by using LLMs to live-rewrite the page's source. (Reddit)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: agent-shell 0.73 updates (Reddit, HN)
• Community:
  • Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2026-08-11 / week 32
  • Chris Maiorana: The Emacs pastoral tradition (YouTube 11:22, Reddit, Irreal)
  • Prot Asks: Oliver about minimalist life, distractions, independence, and more (03:53:38)
  • Sacha Chua: Emacs Chat 28: Fabrice Niessen (en français) (YouTube 59:40)
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: RSI and Emacs: When Your Pinky Says Enough is Enough
• Other:
  • [eaf]「ebook-viewer」 Super Fast & Support Native Calibre's ebook-viewer on emacs. (Reddit)
  • Irreal: Emacs Development: Ongoing And Good
  • The Emacs Cat: Emacs, Dired, and Ubuntu 26.04 (Irreal)
  • compiling emacs from source (for max performance) (13:51)
  • Emacs Window Manager EWM.el (23:21)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Continuation of long discussion about difficulties compiling older versions
  • New value 'with-completions-popup' of 'icomplete-in-buffer' (bug#81537)
  • New image type canvas (Reddit, HN, @divyaranjan@mathstodon.xyz)
  • cperl-mode.el: Support Perl 5.44: named parameters in signatures
  • Flymake: rework inline diagnostic text annotations
  • Preview the replacement text while it is typed (bug#81583)
  • Reimplement `outline-occur' using Xref and match Outline headings
• New packages:
  • annotated-completing-read: Ergonomic completing-read wrapper/helper (MELPA)
  • auto-side-windows: Simplified buffer management for side windows (MELPA)
  • card-games: Play card games (console UNICODE and graphical SVG) (MELPA)
  • codex-ide: Run Codex CLI in a terminal (NonGNU ELPA)
  • hermes: Emacs frontend for Hermes Agent (NonGNU ELPA)
  • ob-janet: Org-Babel support for the Janet language (MELPA)
  • pgsql: Native PostgreSQL protocol client (MELPA)
  • project-store: Project backend for Nix store (NonGNU ELPA)
  • vice-mode: VIm-like Commands Extension (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!