I put the new typewriter mode in the Fun category, but people might actually find the constraints useful for focused writing.

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Sep 26 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 Sep 30 1000 America/Vancouver - 1200 America/Chicago - 1300 America/Toronto - 1700 Etc/UTC - 1900 Europe/Berlin - 2230 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Oct 1 0100 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/316464079/ Thu Oct 1 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto - 2300 Etc/UTC – Fri Oct 2 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0430 Asia/Kolkata - 0700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Oct 2 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/UTC - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
• Emacs configuration:
  • Repeat mode finally made Emacs navigation click
  • J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: New from Emacs 31.1 - Upgrade packages without breaking other Emacsen
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Raymond Zeitler: A Niftier Way To ASCIIfy An Emacs Buffer - replace-char-fold
  • Livecoding for emacs: supersonic.el (08:06)
• Appearance:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: spacious-padding version 0.9.0
• Navigation:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: beframe version 1.6.0
• Dired:
  • Protesilaos: Emacs: dired-preview version 0.7.0
• Writing:
  • markup2html: aesthetic renderer of markdown and org-mode documents (Reddit)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [RFC] Org markup inside comments (was: [Bug] Confusing appearance of bracket link in comment)
  • Ashish Panigrahi: An upgraded workflow on reviewing finished tasks with org-agenda
  • Org Mode, Marked, and Workflows
  • I Migrated My Obsidian Vault to Org Mode - Emacs Everywhere #2 (01:12:35)
  • Org Roam Dashboard (10:01)
  • Org development:
    • org-id: Standardize UUIDs to lowercase and use built-in uuid.el
• Completion:
  • Bumbling my way through the Consult docs to build an async completer (Reddit)
• Coding:
  • TIL magit wraps around smerge so you can discard one side of a hunk with an unresolved conflict (@slackline)
  • Python settings for Flycheck in GNU Emacs (as of September 2026) (@chris_siebenmann@robot.villas)
  • Pinned Tree-sitter grammars for Emacs treesit (emacs-treesit-grammars flake) (Reddit)
• Shells:
  • Why Your Emacs Terminal is Slow and How to Fix It (vterm, eat, ghostel, term, and ansi-term) (Reddit, Irreal)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Microsoft outlook OAuth authentication with mu4e (Reddit) - updated to use Thunderbird client ID
  • Using an existing Microsoft 365 MCP login to get Outlook mail into mu4e
  • andros/presence.el: See when your friends are online, away or offline, and send and read simple messages, right from Emacs
• Doom Emacs:
  • ¿Por qué Doom Emacs es el secreto de los expertos? (22:25)
• Multimedia:
  • Images with Emacs (19:00)
• Fun:
  • New package: Typewriter (Reddit)
• LLMs:
  • envoy: hand an org heading or email from Emacs to a coding harness in tmux (Reddit)
  • gptel: Emacs y la IA
  • moe-microscope/docs/literate/moe-microscope.org at main · sw-ml-study/moe-microscope · GitHub
  • AI Tools #7: A Coding Agent Small Enough to Understand | Software Wrighter Lab Blog
• Other:
  • Tip: C-u C-y yanks but leaves the cursor at the beginning of the string (@lispwizard@techhub.social)
  • Create beautiful diagrams in Emacs using d2 (11:08, code, Reddit, Irreal) - also Org support
  • How to Prevent Emacs from Freezing on Files files with Very Long Lines (e.g, minified JavaScript, compiled CSS, SQL dumps, large JSON files…) (Reddit, Irreal)
• Emacs development:
  • ; * etc/NEWS: Announce underline styles support on Windows Terminal.
  • Add TTY support for overline (Bug#80208)
  • use-package-ensure.el: Don't install during compilation (bug#81710)
  • ; Some followup Tramp changes of sync with 2.9.0
  • Update to Unicode 18.0 (bug#81880)
  • Document tramp-tolerate-tilde
  • * lisp/vc/diff.el (diff-switches): Include "-r".
  • Populate 'pcpu' and 'pmem' attributes on Darwin
• New packages:
  • amber-mode: A major mode for the Amber programming language (MELPA)
  • git-modeline: Show the git status of the current file in the modeline (MELPA)
  • latex-to-svg-for-org: Preview Org LaTeX math as SVG (MELPA)
  • magit-standup: Collect recent git commits for standup notes (MELPA)
  • nightpanel-theme: Saab instrument cluster colorscheme (MELPA)
  • org-roam-stats: Personal Knowledge Management Dashboard (MELPA)
  • remoto: Browse GitHub repos without cloning (MELPA)
  • restlib: Utility library for building REST clients (MELPA)
  • testcover-audit: Quantitative coverage statistics for testcover.el (MELPA)
  • typewriter: Turn Emacs into a text adder (GNU ELPA)

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!