2025-09-15 Emacs news

| emacs, emacs-news

There were lots of Emacs-related discussions on Hacker News, mainly because of two posts about Emacs's extensibility: an Org Mode example and a completion example. This guide on connecting to databases from Org Mode Babel blocks started a few discussions. There were a couple of Emacs Carnival posts on obscure packages, too. Also, if you want to present at EmacsConf 2025 (great way to meet like-minded folks), please send your proposal in by this Friday (Sept 19). Thanks!

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, 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!

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Anchoring my thoughts with a sketch

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2025-09-12-07 Anchoring my thoughts with a sketch -- drawing writing blogging
2025-09-12-07 Anchoring my thoughts with a sketch -- drawing writing blogging

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Anchoring my thoughts with a sketch

I keep most of my notes in text files. This is great for searching, but the sameness of the typography makes things blur together.

I have to read a lot to remember what things felt like, and I still feel so much is missing. Some people can evoke lush word-pictures. I'm not there yet.

Lately I've been giving myself more time to draw, to colour, to doodle.

"Today: A+ kept giving me hugs as we walked home from the supermarket."

Even my simple sketches give me a surprisingly good sense of what I felt, what I cared about.

I made a font from my handwriting, but real handwritten text says so much more.

Comics are very expressive. I wonder how they do that. How do they draw something so specific and yet so resonant?

I take a tangled thought, coax a bit of it into a drawing, and see where that takes me.

"A drawing is simply a line going for a walk." - Paul Klee

Sometimes I do an audio braindump to feel my way around it or to capture lots of details. That gives me a wall of text. Too much, and at the same time, not enough.

I might try to make an outline and expand it, but I often lose steam.

I like organizing and fleshing out the sketch. Drawing it is fun.

Then I can write the text. I often add lots of details and links. Sometimes I feel lost in the weeds. The sketch becomes my map.

I want to finish writing so that you can see my sketch! (and so it makes sense to you and my future self)

Sometimes I just keep playing with the drawing until something interesting emerges.

https://sach.ac/2025-09-12-07

I've been drawing more lately. It's slow, but more fun. I like looking at my sketches from years ago. I think I will like these ones years from now.

I feel like drawings do a good job of reminding me what I feel about a topic, why I want to write about it, and what the overall shape of the topic is, which is important so that I don't run out of steam a couple thousand words into a post. The drawing also encourages me to finish the post so that I can put it out there.

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Emacs and dom.el: quick notes on parsing HTML and turning DOMs back into HTML

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libxml-parse-html-region turns HTML into a DOM (document object model). There's also xml-parse-file and xml-parse-region. xml-parse-string actually parses the character data at point and returns it as a string instead of parsing a string as a parameter. If you have a string and you want to parse it, insert it into a temporary buffer and use libxml-parse-html-region or xml-parse-region. 

(let ((s "<span>Hello world</span>")
      dom)
  (setq dom
        (with-temp-buffer
          (insert s)
          (libxml-parse-html-region))))

(html nil (body nil (span nil Hello world)))

Then you can use functions like dom-by-tag, dom-search, dom-attr, dom-children, etc. If you need to make a deep copy of the DOM, you can use copy-tree.

Turning the DOM back into HTML can be a little tricky. By default, dom-print escapes & in attributes, which could mess up things like href: 

  (with-temp-buffer
    (dom-print (dom-node 'a '((href . "https://example.com?a=b&c=d"))))
     (buffer-string))

  <a href="https://example.com?a=b&amp;c=d" />

shr-dom-print handles & correctly, but it adds spaces in between elements. Also, you need to escape HTML entities in text, maybe with org-html-encode-plain-text. 

  (with-temp-buffer
    (shr-dom-print
      (dom-node 'p nil
                (dom-node 'span nil "hello")
                (dom-node 'span nil "world")
                (dom-node 'a '((href . "https://example.com?a=b&c=d"))
                          (org-html-encode-plain-text "text & stuff"))))
    (buffer-string))

  <p> <span>hello</span> <span>world</span> <a href="https://example.com?a=b&c=d">text &amp; stuff</a></p>

svg-print does the right thing when it comes to href and tags, but you need to escape HTML entities yourself as usual. 

(with-temp-buffer
  (svg-print
   (dom-node 'p nil
             (dom-node 'span nil "hello")
             (dom-node 'span nil "world")
             (dom-node 'a '((href . "https://example.com?a=b&c=d"))
                       (org-html-encode-plain-text "text & stuff"))))
  (buffer-string))

  <p><span>hello</span><span>world</span><a href="https://example.com?a=b&c=d">text &amp; stuff</a></p>

Looks like I'll be using svg-print for more than just SVGs.

Relevant Emacs info pages:

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Coming back to my own time

| life, parenting, time
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Coming back to my own time

For the past 9 years, I've been living on kid time.

Here's the context: me time (not to scale)

  • 22-24: grad school - moderate
  • 24-29: IBM - a little lower
  • 29-33: experimented with semi-retirement - peak
  • 33-42…: parenting; I am here! - very low, but gradually increasing
  • 50s: menopause? - probably down a little
  • 60s onwards: I wonder what this part will be like… - probably a decline

I'm starting to be able to have me-time again. I want to capture what I've learned because early parenting's energy limits might help me plan for menopause, illness, or old

The first big challenge:

  • Physical limits
    • sleep deprivation
    • brain fog
    • low energy
  • How:
    • Lower expectations
    • Naps
    • Going with the flow

When that settled down:

  • Fragmented attention span:
    • Tiny steps (5-15min)
    • Notes, literate coding
  • Unpredictability
    • Things I can pick up and put down
    • Other devices
  • Lack of momentum
    • Acceptance

Things I learned about myself:

  • My failure modes; asking for help
  • The essentials
  • My kinds of play

Now what?

  • Skills
  • Processes and systems
  • Stocks and flows

https://sach.ac/2025-09-10-10

The door clicked shut. A+ had just shooed me out of her room, and she was already back at her desk waiting for her virtual grade 4 class to begin. She's got this. And all of a sudden, I had time for myself. I could have two focused-time chunks of a few hours each, straight, several days in a row. I've made it to the other side of the early parenting time crunch. I could start dusting off all those ideas that I've shoved into my notes for a long-imagined someday. That someday could be today.

Before I settle back into the world of being able to string two thoughts together, I wanted to reflect on this past almost-decade of voluntarily giving up my time autonomy. I don't know how much of my experience can translate to other people's lives. I've been so lucky in the choices we got to make. But I'd better write down my notes before I forget.

Physical limits

I knew I was signing up for a lot when I decided to become a parent, but the sheer challenge of running into my physical limits was still eye-opening. Well, eye-closing. Sleep deprivation was so tough. My sleep was as fragmented as A+'s (newborns have no idea about night or day) and didn't get back to normal-ish until 2019 or so, when A+ was 3 and I was 36. I stumbled through the day with perpetual brain fog and low energy. I had had slow days like that before, too, especially during the third trimester, but it's a whole 'nother kettle of fish when you're responsible for another human being who wants to play with you and who gets stressed if she detects you're stressed.

Mostly I dealt with this by lowering my expectations. I scaled my consulting way, way down. There was nothing urgent that I needed to work on. My personal projects could generally be postponed for a few years. I could just focus on putting one foot in front of the other, keeping this tiny human alive and reasonably happy.

If it was a particularly rough day and I knew I wouldn't make it to when she'd finally fall asleep the following night, I napped while A+ was with W-. I learned to be more in tune with my need for sleep and food and quiet, because when I misjudged them, bedtime was inevitably rough. Sometimes I just had to step back, close the door, and cry: exhausted, touched-out, overstimulated, trying to pour from an empty cup.

Days went more smoothly as we learned to go with the flow. Some days we were in sync: bright and enthusiastic and engaged. Some days were just slow days. Some days I said, "I'm too tired to think of something creative right now. I just can't come up with funny stories or interesting voices right now. Let's find something low-energy that I can play with you."

It took a few years for us to figure out a sleep rhythm that worked for us. When she started snuggling to bed at a more reasonable time and sleeping for a bit longer, I really appreciated being able to sleep again. I really appreciated being able to think again.

To be fair, I voluntarily chose this path knowing what it entailed. We didn't sleep-train. I nursed on demand instead of getting her used to a schedule. We didn't use daycare or have any external scheduling pressures. There were only a few instances when I felt stretched beyond my limits. We seem to have survived without losing too much (aside from some of my brain cells), and we might have even gained a few things along the way.

Fragmented attention span

Even after we more-or-less figured out sleep and other physical constraints, I still needed to learn a lot about adjusting to my new reality. A+ was curious about everything. As her default parent, I was her voice-activated guide to the universe. "Mom!" "Mom!" "Mom!" punctuated my day into fragments. There was no space for longer thoughts during the day. I couldn't put my thoughts together or figure out where they fit into the big picture. Sometimes, if I felt confident about my sense of her sleep cycle, I stayed up late or woke up early to have maybe 30-60 minutes of me-time. Too many days of that in a row, though, and I'd find myself slipping back into sleep-deprived zombie mode. It was a balance.

I did better whenever I broke my ideas down into tiny steps. I might not be able to code for two hours to fully puzzle out a new feature, but I could squeeze in 15 minutes to write a function. It reminded me of when I used to work on a tiny computer, which forced me to build programs out of shorter functions that each fit on one screen. Now I had to learn how to build ideas from short paragraphs that fit on my mobile phone in between the notification bar and the onscreen keyboard. If I managed to squeeze in a little computer time, I focused on tiny workflow improvements that might let me pack a little bit more into the next computer session, like a function that collected my Reddit upvotes so that I could use that as a starting point for Emacs News1, or a way to compare automatically-generated subtitles from the Whisper speech recognition engine with the speaker's script to identify things they might have ad-libbed2 (or maybe even automatically correct them). The Emacs text editor's programmability worked really well for this. I just kept sanding down the rough spots in my workflows, and things flowed more smoothly.

Taking notes helped a lot, too, especially whenever I could use the literate programming technique of having my code, notes, and links right on the same screen. It meant that I could use those notes as a jumping-off point when I got back to something after fifteen minutes of conversation about what A+ learned about Star Wars characters had wiped the context from my mind.

Sometimes I felt too time-starved to take notes, or I told myself I didn't need to take notes because it was still in flux and I hadn't figured out how I wanted to solve the problem yet. Whenever I tried to move quickly without notes, I always ended up regretting it later because I needed to figure things out all over again. In 2022 I did a mad scramble to make EmacsConf 2022 a two-track conference so that we could fit all the talks in, and I spent much of my EmacsConf 2023 prep time trying to figure out how I pulled it off.

The fragmentation of my attention span might have been manageable if it had been predictable. Many people like the pomodoro technique for breaking up intense focus with breaks, after all, and I'd reflected on the value of interrupting my own momentum even before I had A+. But "predictable" definitely didn't describe my life with A+. Knowing how much it helped me to surf the ebbs and flows of my energy, I wanted to experiment with going with A+'s flow too: helping her learn the things she wanted to learn at the time she wanted to learn them, letting her tune in to what she needed and when. I figured it might be interesting for me to open myself up to as much as I could get, even if it meant tough days from time to time.

Unpredictability

Things got better as A+ grew. A+ got the hang of reading fairly early. When she learned how to read silently faster than I could read to her out loud, and she began to lose herself in the stacks of books I strewed around the house, I started to have unexpected pockets of free time when no one was talking to me and I could actually think my own thoughts. This was unpredictable, though. I couldn't use the time for coding or consulting, because she would invariably wander back while I was in the middle of a complex thought, and then the Ovsiankina effect meant that I was trying to hang on to that task in my head so that I didn't lose all progress. It would rattle around in my brain until I got a chance to finish it or at least properly braindump some notes. Eventually I was able to get A+ to understand me when I said, "I just need five minutes to finish this thought," but I definitely needed to be able to wrap things up in that sort of timeframe instead, of, say, spending an additional thirty minutes trying to figure out how to un-mess-up a production environment.

I shifted to things I could pick up and put down easily. Emacs News mostly involves collecting and categorizing various links, so that was much easier to interrupt as needed. Writing and drawing got better as I got the hang of following an idea across different tools for thinking about it: audio braindumps, sketches, bouncing writing between my phone and my computer. The laptop was cumbersome to move from room to room, but I could clip on a lapel mic or pop in some earphones when I was doing chores by myself. My SuperNote A5X (and later on, my iPad) was light enough to take to the playground if I happened to have a moment to myself during a playdate, although I was still ready to play with A+ in case she didn't feel like joining the games the other kids wanted to play.

Lack of momentum

Short, unpredictable fragments of time could probably still have been pieced together into something more useful if they had been denser, like when a cluster of puzzle pieces gives you enough of a sense of a picture to motivate you to keep going. But I didn't have enough of them close together to build momentum. Coding requires holding context in your head: what the task is, where files are, what functions do, how to run the code, even the syntax of the particular programming language I wanted to work in. I couldn't make much headway on projects since I kept forgetting the context in between sessions, caught up in the whirlwind of life with a small child. It's as if I was trying to put together a detailed jigsaw puzzle, and then this whirlwind would come and scatter all the pieces. Not only that, I felt stretched between the different things I was juggling, all the puzzle pieces jumbled together with no clues. I eventually accepted that bigger puzzles would have to wait for someday, and that it was time to enjoy the moment instead.

I knew, intellectually, that things would be different and I wouldn't be able to put my thoughts together for a while. For the most part, I was able to just capture ideas on my phone using Orgzly Revived and postpone them to the far future when I'd have time to explore them. I might not have expected an ongoing global pandemic to mess up the usual timeline for being able to get chunks of time back, but I had theoretically signed up for the possibility of, say, having a child with major support needs, so it was part of what I'd considered and assented to before we started down this path of parenting. Still, there were times when I felt like declaring: "I am a person and I want to be able to complete this thought and solve this problem." When it got to that point, W- was usually able to give me a few hours (or even a few days, like the weekends I ran EmacsConf) to feel like me again.

Things I learned

Now A+ has settled into the rhythm of virtual grade 4, and new possibilities are beginning to open up. Time to crystallize what I've learned before it dissipates into forgetfulness.

I learned about my failure modes, and I learned about asking for help. It was good to find out where and how I fall apart, and how I can piece myself back together after a nap or a good playdate. I accepted that sometimes I would just totally blank out on things to say or do, and I grew to appreciate Toronto's playgrounds, libraries, early childhood centres, and activity places. I got more acquainted with my anxiety and we figured out ways to work with it. I learned that yes, I can still love a tiny baby even after she has clamped down hard with her mouth on part of me that doesn't like getting bitten (that's all of me, really; why?! why would you do that?!), and I can quickly learn to keep my hand nearby so that I can pry her gums apart.

It was interesting to see who I was and what I did when everything had to be stripped down to the essentials. I mostly stayed regulated. I still picked experimentation and curiosity. I didn't have the brainspace to consult, code, or untangle complex thoughts, but I enjoyed putting together Emacs News and capturing moments through drawings. I used little bits of time for incremental improvements.

I've learned a little bit more about our kinds of play, mostly by taking advice from cartoon dogs. I had a hard time with pretend play in the beginning, but it's easier now that we have so many interests to draw on. I'm not very physical, but I enjoy biking and skating. I like wordplay, drawing silly things, making up songs, and figuring out life together through experiments.

Looking ahead

So what can I take from this crash course on my constraints?

The results of this stress test give me some ideas for skills I can develop. Paying attention to my needs for sleep, food, and quiet helped me through the tough days of early parenting, and failing to do so had pretty clear consequences. I want to get even better at tuning in and taking care of myself. Then I can both go with the flow and notice when I need to make longer-term adaptations. Those years of brain fog and low energy made it clear to me that I'd really rather not have to go through that again earlier than I need to, so I may need to get better at protecting and advocating for health. As I move into a time when I won't be able to capture significant moments with pictures or videos (because of privacy or simply because many important things are invisible or unrecognized in the moment), I want to get better at observing, reflecting, writing, and drawing. Sketching my thoughts and observations might help me capture more in a compact, expressive way. Anticipating the physical and mental upheaval of menopause, I can get better at untangling and processing my feelings. Knowing that I'm going to run into things I can't do on my own, I can learn more about available resources and practise reaching out. There's also a whole bucketful of practical life skills that might be good to learn. There are also interests that are good for me, like gardening and piano. All of these things can work in the long run. There are people who write or draw into their 70s and 80s, even with physical challenges.

If I want to do this long-term, knowing that more of these challenges are likely to be in my future (if I'm lucky), I can work on processes and systems that can help me. A habit of writing as I go (and the tools to make this easy) will help me if menopausal brain fog messes up my attention span. Calendars and reminders can help me stay on top of things I need to do. Exploring alternative user interfaces like speech might help if typing gets difficult. Who knows, by the time I need this kind of support, maybe large language models will be well-situated to help me with tip-of-the-tongue, similarity search, and other information retrieval tasks.

Cognitive processing speed tends to decline over time, but crystallized knowledge accumulates.3 If I may have to think less, at least I can try to think more deeply, connecting ideas and experiences. Instead of looking back at the end and trying to conjecture about what I must have been thinking or feeling, I'd love to take good notes along the way, kinda like the mnemonic slurry Cory Doctorow mentioned.4 I want to keep improving the flow of ideas in and posts out. I want to keep adding to my stock of notes and inspiration. (And I want to have good backups and a way to shift from one thing to another as needed.)

Getting through early parenting was challenging, even though I was already playing on easy mode compared to lots of other people. Things are a little smoother now, but I know it's going to be tougher in the future. There might be big projects in my someday pile, but I'm not going to tackle them yet. I'm still easing into thinking again. Tiny steps, incremental improvements. It's good to start getting ready.

Footnotes

1

my-reddit-list-upvoted in my Emacs News Org file

2

subed-wdiff-subtitle-text-with-file in subed-common

3

Murman DL. The Impact of Age on Cognition. Semin Hear. 2015 Aug;36(3):111-21. doi: 10.1055/s-0035-1555115. PMID: 27516712; PMCID: PMC4906299. (HTML accessed 2025-09-12)

4

My composition is greatly aided [by] both 20 years' worth of mnemonic slurry of semi-remembered posts and the ability to search memex.craphound.com (the site where I've mirrored all my Boing Boing posts) easily.

A huge, searchable database of decades of thoughts really simplifies the process of synthesis.

Cory Doctorow in Pluralistic: 13 Jan 2021

Also related:

And it's interesting, right, this accretive note-taking and the process of taking core samples through the deep time of your own ideas.

Matt Webb in Memexes, mountain lakes, and the serendipity of old ideas

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What do I want from gardening?

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2025-09-08-01 What do I want from gardening? -- gardening life
2025-09-08-01 What do I want from gardening? -- gardening life

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What do I want from gardening? 2025-09-08-01

  • Lettuce for salad
  • As many cherry tomatoes as we can eat and share
  • Marigolds, roses: Colour, play
  • Radishes are fun too
  • Perilla leaves
  • Basil
  • Mint
  • Green onions, chives
  • Lavender
  • Bitter melon for W-
  • Small cucumbers
  • Strawberries

Overall:

  • Things we use a little of at a time
  • Things that are very tasty

Next step: Add more to soil to get more out of it:

  • replace front garden with compost & radishes
  • get the pots set up for lettuce

Things that get in the way:

  • Heat
  • Poor soil weeds > seeds
  • Other priorities
  • Waiting

First frost: ~ Oct 13

  • get strawberries back in the ground
  • another crop of lettuce & radishes

The weather's getting cooler. I probably have a couple of weeks more before the cherry tomatoes get too cold. A+ hasn't been interested in harvesting them lately, so I get to do the tomato-picking now. We have a little over a month until the usual first frost in Toronto. I moved the strawberries to pots during spring/summer so that I could keep them in a cage away from squirrels, but now it's time to put them in the ground. I'll see if I can still pick up some compost from the garden store so that I can amend the soil before I replant the strawberries. It's a good time for me to get some more lettuce and radishes going, too.

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Writing into the quiet

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2025-09-08-02 Writing into the quiet -- blogging
2025-09-08-02 Writing into the quiet -- blogging

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Writing into the quiet 2025-09-08-02

There's a conversation 1 about whether blogging is lonely and I wanted to reflect on that from the perspective of 24ish years of sharing notes on my idiosyncratic interests. Blog conversations remind me of the Great Conversation between book authors2 sometimes with centuries in between. In contrast, blogs. are quick, open, convivial.

When it comes to developing ideas, I like public writing more than the ephemeral cacophany of in-person conversations, social media @replies or private e-mails.

My notes are often for my present understanding and sometimes for my future selves. If they resonate with others: bonus!

I think this might be a useful way to think about it.

Write out of self-interest. Leave the door open for serendipity

Then it's not about "No one's liking or commenting" or even "Why can't I find other people like me"

It's more like: I'll keep exploring and taking notes, because it's fun. Maybe I'll bump into others and swap notes someday. Who knows?

There's a conversation about feeling lonely while blogging that echoes through the years. Here's a recent instance: Do blogs need to be so lonely? - The History of the Web; I also liked The silent applause | Robert Birming and Blogs don’t need to be so lonely – Manu. Me, I mostly write for myself, and I don't feel particularly lonely doing so. It's a pleasant surprise whenever I hear from someone, but it's not my main goal. I'm content to plod along, trying to untangle my thoughts and leave some breadcrumbs for my future self. This has been very handy not only for technical posts, but also for things like being able to remember what it was like to be a twenty-something. Writing into the quiet without expecting a reply is like enjoying a comfortably silent beach and occasionally being delighted when you discover someone else's message in a bottle.

Blog conversations are so much faster than book conversations. We don't have to pass through publishing gatekeepers, we don't have to wait years… just ideas bouncing back and forth. Marvelous.

Commenting is easier than writing from scratch, so it would be nice to give people that space to share their follow-on thoughts more easily, but it's becoming more of a hassle as parts of the Web become more hostile. (Thanks, spammers and advertising cookie-trackers.) I turned off comments on my blog back in March as Disqus had gotten overbearing with ads and tracking. I didn't feel like figuring out another commenting service or self-hosting my own. I don't miss wading through all the spam. I do miss the ease of public comments and the tips people shared, mostly because it was convenient to see and share those replies in one place. Still, there's space for commentary. Some people comment via Mastodon or their own blogs. Once in a blue moon, a post will strike enough of a chord to get shared via Reddit or something like that. And there's always e-mail.

I like blog carnivals: someone proposes a theme, people can choose to write about it, and the host links to all those posts for easier discovery. There's one for IndieWeb and there's one for Emacs. It's fun seeing all these different takes on the same topic.

I wish it was easier for more people to share what they've been figuring out. I don't think the technology is the limiting factor. My mom used to keep a blog on Blogger, and she also wrote some posts in the self-hosted Wordpress I'd set up for her before. My sister writes long stories on Facebook and Instagram so that she can untangle her thoughts and capture the memories. Never mind that Facebook is a walled garden that's hard to follow outside its algorithmic feed; at least she's writing. I think it's more that the process of sitting down and turning your thoughts into words takes time and energy. That's the hard part, but that's also what's worthwhile. You can't skip it by using a large language model.

Is writing lonely? I wish more people had the space to sit with their thoughts and figure them out, and I wish they were easier to find. I'll settle for reaching across time and space: to my future self, for sure, and maybe to others whom I may or may not interact with. Send enough bottles out to sea, comb the beach often enough, and I'll find plenty of people who like to take that quiet, thoughtful approach to life (even as we gently poke fun at ourselves for possibly overthinking things). Fortunately, if they blog, it's easy to keep in touch lightly: not limited by anyone's energy or interest at a particular point in time, but just open to serendipity.

A message in a bottle

: A few more thoughts I want to connect to this one:

  • Henrik Karlsson's essay on writing as a search query for people
  • I came across Twilight Journal via r/stoicism today, so I wanted to link to that too. Messages in bottles.
  • And another thought about the night sky and how it's filled with stars, even though there are unimaginable spaces between them… (Not that I've seen a clear night sky lately, but I have one clear memory of it as a child that stays with me.)

Footnotes

1

Here's a recent instance: Do blogs need to be so lonely? - The History of the Web. I also liked The silent applause | Robert Birming and Blogs don’t need to be so lonely – Manu.

2

I picked up this idea from Adler and van Doren's How to Read a Book and the idea of syntopical reading.

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2025-09-08 Emacs news

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There was lots of conversation around Why Rewriting Emacs Is Hard this week, with threads on Reddit, HN, and lobste.rs. Also, if you want to present at EmacsConf 2025 (great way to meet like-minded folks), please send your proposal in by next Friday (Sept 19). Thanks!

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, 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!

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