I've had this iPad Air 13" for about two three weeks now, and I'm slowly settling into how the different pieces of tech can work together and how things can flow.

On the iPad, I've been mostly using:

• Procreate: drawing, painting
• Noteful: sketchnotes and thinking, although I'm not completely happy with the pen setup
• ZoomNotes: also experimenting with this one, might be better for relating several sketches together
• Simply Piano / Simply Sing / Simply Draw: tutorials
• NetNewsWire: RSS feeds
• Libby: reading

Moving data around is a bit of a hodgepodge: internal webserver or Dropbox for the Supernote, Dropbox and Synology's DS Drive for the iPad, and Syncthing for the server. I'm sure that'll settle down eventually as I figure out a better flow.

I like how drawing, singing, and playing the piano give me a way to distract myself from the urge to nag A+. Still definitely just starting out, but it's fun anyway. It's nice to be able to breeze through library e-books again, too.

I notice I've been missing the occasional calendar reminder from my phone, so that's probably a sign that I need to (a) set up the iPad for calendar access as well, (b) have more distinct notifications on my phone, and (c) take the phone with me as I go from room to room. On the plus side, that probably means I've been getting in the zone, yay! It seems a little easier to just take the whole stack of phone+Supernote+iPad when I move rooms instead of leaving them in different places and then having to go find them. The laptop is a lot heavier, though, so I tend to move that on an as-needed basis.

I set up a copy of sketches.sachachua.com server on the NAS (so it's just on the local network) pointing to my private sketches directory, so now I can flip through my private sketches fairly easily. They're mostly just various thoughts on parenting and emotions and life. Now I can review them from either my iPad or my laptop, yay!

Ideas for next steps:

• Keep distracting myself from fretting about A+ by completing various art/music tutorials.
• Have fun doodling.
• Contemplate whether I want to read my Org files on the iPad, and what the best way of doing it might be. (Organice? PlainOrg? Just do a PDF/EPUB export of stuff I'm focusing on? - update 2025-03-01: added Beorg)
• See if A+ is up for field trips to the art gallery or museum.

The iPad Air seems like a good addition. Let's see what I can do with it.

I write my blog posts in Org Mode and export them to Eleventy with ox-11ty, which is derived from the ox-html backend.

Sometimes I want to link to something in a different blog post. This lets me build on thoughts that are part of a post instead of being a whole post on their own.

If I haven't added an anchor to the blog post yet, I can add one so that I can link to that section. For really old posts where I don't have an Org source file, I can edit the HTML file directly and add an id="some-id" so that I can link to it with /url/to/post#some-id. Most of my new posts have Org source, though. I have a my-blog-edit-org function and a my-blog-edit-html function in my Emacs configuration to make it easier to jump to the Org file or HTML for a blog post.

If the section has a heading, then it's easy to make that linkable with a custom name. I can use org-set-property to set the CUSTOM_ID property to the anchor name. For example, this voice access section has a heading that has CUSTOM_ID, as you can see in the . If I don't mind having long anchor names, I can use the my-assign-custom-ids function from my config to automatically set them based on the outline path.

(defun my-assign-custom-ids ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((custom-ids
         (org-map-entries (lambda () (org-entry-get (point) "CUSTOM_ID")) "CUSTOM_ID={.}")))
    (org-map-entries
     (lambda ()
       (let ((slug
              (replace-regexp-in-string
               "^-\\|-$" ""
               (replace-regexp-in-string "[^A-Za-z0-9]+" "-"
                                         (downcase (string-join (org-get-outline-path t) " "))))))
         (while (member slug custom-ids)
           (setq slug (read-string "Manually set custom ID: ")))
         (org-entry-put (point) "CUSTOM_ID" slug)))
     "-CUSTOM_ID={.}")))

  #+ATTR_HTML: :id interest-development
  That reminds me a little of another reflection
  I've been noodling around on interest development...

/* Add link icons to headings and anchored paragraphs */
function addLinkIcons() {
  document.querySelectorAll('h1[id], h2[id], h3[id], p[id]').forEach((o) => {
    const link = document.createElement('a');
    const article = o.closest('article[data-url]');
    link.href = window.location.origin + (article?.getAttribute('data-url') || window.location.pathname) + '#' + o.getAttribute('id');
    link.innerHTML = '🔗';  // link icon
    link.title = 'anchor';
    link.classList.add('anchor-icon');
    link.addEventListener('click', copyLink);
    o.prepend(link);
  });
}

addLinkIcons();

.entry h2, .entry h3, .entry h4, .entry p, .content h2, .content h3, .content h4, .content p { position: relative }
.content a.anchor-icon:link, .entry a.anchor-icon:link { font-size: 60%; text-decoration: none !important; font-size: small; float: right }
@media only screen and (min-width: 95rem) {
   .content a.anchor-icon:link, .entry a.anchor-icon:link { display: block; position: absolute; left: -2em; top: 0.2em; float: none}
}

• Emacs 30:
  • Emacs 30.1 released (Reddit, lobste.rs, HN, lemmy.ml, Irreal, LWN)
  • Emacs 30.1 RC1 is available (Reddit, Irreal, lemmy.ml)
  • What's New in Emacs 30.1? (Reddit, HN)
  • J.e.r.e.m.y B.r.y.a.n.t: Emacs 30.1 released including which-key
  • Tim Heaney: Emacs 30
  • What's New in Emacs? (Feb 2025) - System Crafters Live! (01:47:02)
  • Rahul Juliato: Compiling Emacs 30.1 from the source on Debian
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 26 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 27 0130 Asia/Singapore
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/306023632/ Wed Mar 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Thu Mar 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Mar 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Mar 8 0000 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Emacs From Scratch Tamil [ep1]​ (01:28:42)
• Emacs configuration:
  • vifon/lazy-guard: Emacs config validator - Codeberg.org
  • Using same .emac.d/ on different hosts: Recipe for gitignoring ignore potentially host-specific files
• Emacs Lisp:
  • What you need to know about variables in Emacs
  • Emacs Skeletons: The Missing Manual - EINVAL: Valid solutions for invalid problems
  • Benjamin Slade: C-c-c-conjecturing, and dealing with recursion in Emacs (more excursus)
  • Lambda Calculus and Lisp, part 2 (recursion excursion) (Reddit)
  • Introduzione al Emacs Lisp
• Appearance:
  • Making tab line tabs pretty
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: fontaine version 3.0.0
  • I made my Emacs look like Vscode and now I feel like a sinner (Reddit)
  • Ruslan Bekenev: Emacs: glasses-mode (Irreal)
  • Re: Structured color specifications to simplify color themes (was: [elpa - emacs-devel discussion, Prot will work on stuff
• Navigation:
  • Peter Povinec: Speed Dialing Your Favorite Files (Reddit)
  • Emacs: ediff basics
  • (Released) float-narrow-indirect, provides floating window support for narrow-indirect operations (Reddit)
• Dired:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: dired-preview version 0.4.0 (lemmy.ml)
• Writing:
  • Charles Choi: macOS Native Emoji Picking in Emacs from the Edit Menu (Irreal)
  • Cognitive joy tooling #3: Closing the creation-application gap of my knowledge base using auto-segmentation, colors, and semantic search | lgmoneda (@brunoarine@hachyderm.io)
• Org Mode:
  • ASCII Line Art with Orgmode and Python (@petervennemann@nrw.social)
  • ASCII Line Art with Orgmode and SvgBob (@petervennemann@nrw.social)
  • Migrando mi sistema de notas a Emacs | ~/srmorita (@srmorita@rebel.ar)
  • Comprehensive 12 Part Org-Agenda Course in One #emacs #coding #scheduling #org (01:34:06)
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] org-read-date-style
  • Import, export, and intogration:
    • The auto-org-md package #org #markdown #coding #programming #emacs (01:03)
    • Blogging with Emacs, Hugo, and Github Pages (03:41)
    • (Release) Chrome version of Copy as Org-mode (Reddit)
    • Matt Maguire: Org Mode Beamer Presentations
    • Use org-download to download image links in an org-mode file.
    • Bookmarklets (and Custom URL Schemes) Are Criminally Underrated | silly business - note that the current org-protocol documentation is at Protocols (The Org Manual)
• Completion:
  • The M-x menu is probably the least talked about feature of Emacs.
  • Emacs Counsel M X Is A Bloody Good Way To Find Commands 2025_02_23_16:29:00 (07:00)
  • Simple Functions for Making Hippie-Expand More Intuitive to Use
• Coding:
  • which language is one for which emacs is godly at?
  • herbertjones/nushell-ts-mode (@nnungest@fosstodon.org)
  • Release CIDER 1.17 ("Cologne") · clojure-emacs/cider · GitHub (@bbatsov@hachyderm.io)
  • Scala Development with Emacs (Reddit)
  • New release for ts-fold and treesit-fold
  • Norm: XPath server 0.0.2
  • James Dyer: Why I Switched from Magit to VC-Mode (and How It Works for Me) (Irreal)
• Shells:
  • Made a start on a little elisp to open a Kitty terminal and execute the program from the current buffer.
• Web:
  • Want to post code on a web page? Here's a cute snippet to quickly "entitify" it.
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: HTML, but not too HTML (Irreal)
  • Lars Ingebrigtsen: Inserting Images Automatically in ewp - Wordpress
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • I think I have to go back to Mu4e - Baty.net (@jbaty@social.lol)
  • Turning Markdown files into emails - Baty.net
• Multimedia:
  • Watch YouTube with Emacs Elfeed and GNU EMMS (01:20)
• Fun:
  • Bad Apple! Played In Emacs (03:43)
• AI:
  • Tool Use + Translation RAG in Emacs Using GPTel and a Super Crappy LLM (Reddit)
  • gptel-aibo updates
  • RAGmacs - Pt. 2: Re-Tooling Emacs With GPTel (09:32)
  • Vibe coding in Emacs (13:12)
  • The ChatGPT Shell Package #emacs #ai #coding #programming #openai #llama (08:25)
• Community:
  • What Questions are Worth Asking Emacs-Newcomers?
  • "I would be SO happy to kick emacs to the kerb!" (Reddit) - unhappiness about performance; profiling tips in comments
• Other:
  • advanced emacs: revert-buffer-function (03:57)
  • buffer-terminator (Release 1.1.1): Automatically terminate unused buffers to enhance Emacs' performance by reducing open buffers, thereby minimizing active modes, timers, processes… (r/emacs, r/planetemacs)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Inserting Ledger transactions even faster
  • Emacs Application Framework - This is amazing!
  • Emacs Athena on OpenBSD (@mostlypat@mastodon.sdf.org)
  • Использование Emacs под Windows (@zeppelin@lor.sh)
• Emacs development: (savannah.gnu.org is down for me right now, so no updates)
• New packages:
  • bray: Lightweight modal editing (MELPA)
  • denote-agenda: Integrate Denote and Org-Agenda (MELPA)
  • gptel-aibo: An AI Writing Assistant (MELPA)
  • gptel-fn-complete: Complete the function at point using gptel (MELPA)
  • lithium: Lightweight modal interfaces (MELPA)
  • ollama-buddy: Ollama Buddy: Your Friendly AI Assistant (MELPA)

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, communick.news, 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!

I set up a BigBlueButton web conferencing server so that people can use it for Emacs meetups. To keep costs down, I want to resize it to 1 GB RAM 1 vCPU most of the time, and then resize it to 8 GB RAM 4 vCPU when there's a meetup. When it's at a proper size (4 CPUs), the Nginx web server should proxy the Greenlight web interface for BigBlueButton. In between meetups, I want to display a backup page to let people know they've got the right URL but that it's not up yet.

First, I need a shell script that returns the name of the configuration file to use. This is /usr/local/bin/nginx-cpu-config.sh:

#!/bin/bash
cpu_count=$(nproc)
if [ "$cpu_count" -ge 4 ]; then
    echo "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf"
else
    echo "/etc/nginx/backup-nginx.conf"
fi

Next, I need to copy /etc/nginx/nginx.conf to /etc/nginx/backup-nginx.conf. Instead of include /etc/nginx/sites-available/*;, I'll use include /etc/nginx/sites-backup/*;. Then I need to set up a copy of the /etc/nginx/sites-available/bigbluebutton in /etc/nginx/sites-backup/bigbluebutton. I changed the try_files so that it tries the backup file.

  # BigBlueButton landing page.
  location / {
    root   /var/www/bigbluebutton-default/assets;
    try_files $uri /backup/index.html @bbb-fe;
  }

I set up a /var/www/bigbluebutton/assets/backup/index.html with the message that I wanted to display between meetups.

I removed the /etc/systemd/system/haproxy.service.d/require-cpu.conf I had previously set up, so it would start even if downscaled to a single CPU. Then I created a /etc/systemd/system/nginx.service.d/based-on-cpus.conf with the following contents:

[Service]
ExecStartPre=
ExecStartPre=/bin/bash -c '/usr/sbin/nginx -t -c $(/usr/local/bin/nginx-cpu-config.sh)'
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c '/usr/sbin/nginx -c $(/usr/local/bin/nginx-cpu-config.sh)'
ExecReload=
ExecReload=/bin/bash -c '/usr/sbin/nginx -s reload -c $(/usr/local/bin/nginx-cpu-config.sh)'

Then I ran systemctl daemon-reload and used service nginx restart to test.

Seems to be working. We'll see!

• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 20 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Feb 22 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs Berlin (hybrid, in English) https://emacs-berlin.org/ Wed Feb 26 0930 America/Vancouver - 1130 America/Chicago - 1230 America/Toronto - 1730 Etc/GMT - 1830 Europe/Berlin - 2300 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 27 0130 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Lesson on Controlling Emacs Windows (Reddit)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Etenil/emacs-substrate: Bare-bones emacs configuration starter (@etenil@toot.cat)
  • viglioni/lauremacs at new-lauremacs (@laura.viglioni.com)
  • orzechowskid/duomacs at next (@danorz.com)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Irreal: Elisp Abstraction
  • Xah Talk Show 2025-02-16 Ep614 emacs lisp coding, keyword parameters (01:01:10)
• Appearance:
  • Mark Tomczak: Unstick Terminals in Emacs
  • Emacs Redux: Customizing Color Themes
  • Anand Tamariya: Emacs Font is wider
  • I have created some Emacs themes and would love your feedback to finalize and submit them. Your critique on which looks good would be highly appreciated.
• Navigation:
  • Marcin Borkowski: isearch-forward-thing-at-point (Irreal)
  • Composiphrase: Composable editing language like Vim, but moreso (@willghatch@mastodon.social)
  • An emacs macro to transform DTOs (@chamook@hachyderm.io)
  • Projectile 2.9 released! (Reddit)
• Writing:
  • Introduction to Emacs Writing Studio - YouTube (@danderzei@aus.social)
• Org Mode:
  • Org Mode requests: [FR] org-read-date-style
  • Recurring checklists using org mode in emacs (Reddit, HN, Irreal)
  • Irreal: Using Emacs For Research Notes
  • New literature notes package (Reddit) - citar-org-mode
  • Org dynamic block for calculating sprint points (@trevdev@fosstodon.org)
  • Organizing my Emacs config with Org-Babel
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • (Released) Org-headline-card, convert org-mode headlines and their contents into beautiful visual cards. (Reddit)
    • (Update) org-supertag: Enhanced the org-supertag-node-add-reference Command
    • A Few More Thoughts on Literate Programming (2022, Reddit)
    • Fizzbuzz battle: Orgmode versus THE REPL for lazy lisp series, an emacs story | by screwlisp | Feb, 2025 | Medium (@screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org)
    • how to blogpost directly from emacs | visd0m.dev (@screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org) - ox-hugo, GitHub actions
    • Maintaining a youtube list as an org-table: yt-playlist
    • org-reminders : An Emacs plugin for interacting between macOS Reminders and org mode.
    • Show Emacs org-timer countdown in macOS menubar (@charlbotha.com)
    • Comments via Mastodon (@noctuaminervae@toot.si) - and moderation in Org Mode
• Denote:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: I am in the process of splitting Denote into many packages
• Coding:
  • My personal emacs slime useage examples | by screwlisp | Feb, 2025 | Medium (@screwlisp@me.dm)
  • VHDL-LS toml generator (Reddit)
  • Demo of how to set up Emacs dap-mode for Swift debugging
  • Emacs Major Modes for Power BI · A #dataOp ramblings
  • Norm: XPath server
  • Magit now natively supports adding icons in the status buffer
  • On Jujutsu and Magit · Antoine Martin (lobste.rs)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • twtxt.el update: viewing profiles
• Spacemacs:
  • Is spacemacs the best emacs distro? (25:57)
• Doom Emacs:
  • Installing Doom Emacs on Windows #emacs #doomemacs #keybinds (10:29)
• AI:
  • writing elisp with ellama (Reddit)
  • Ollama Buddy Updates! - Individual models can be assigned to individual commands + more!
  • Aidermacs: Aider AI Pair Programming in Emacs (Reddit)
  • Copilot-chat v2 is here
  • gptel-fn-complete.el (formerly gptel-manual-complete) updates
  • Using ChatGPT via gptel to make my Emacs nutrition tracker smarter (05:58)
  • Emacs Lisp Live Code | quick gemini API integrration (35:58)
• Community:
  • TAONAW - Emacs and Org Mode: More Emacs would be nice, but… (Irreal, follow-up)
  • A veces todo nos lleva a Emacs y por qué adoro el blog de Irreal (@maxxcan@mastodon.social)
  • Live Interview With Kent Pitman Recorded! - screwlisp - Medium (@screwlisp@me.dm) - Emacs history
  • Глупая война между Vim и GNU Emacs (22:46)
• Other:
  • Arthur A. Gleckler: LLM Unlock - using pass to store secrets
  • calibredb.el new update: support folder metadata
  • Inferior lisp emacs unicode lookup. EDIT: I GOT LEARNED SOME EMACS | by screwlisp | Feb, 2025 | Medium (@screwlisp@me.dm)
  • guile on emacs+termux fails to run. this was my solution - Brasil
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • #76120 - [PATCH] Expose the native sharing dialog (macOS) - GNU bug report logs - Philosophical considerations regarding proprietary OS features
    • Notes on process for getting FTP access to upload Emacs binaries
    • Re: igc: Info manual for MemoryPoolSystem - kludge for easy access to local info
  • Make the rx `eval` form use lexical binding when active
  • vc-revert-file: Support reverting directories
  • Add mhtml-ts-mode.
  • New functions oddp and evenp
  • completing-read-multiple: CRM indication and prompt customization
  • (smerge-refine-exchange-point): New command
  • Teach gnus/message about international Re: variants
  • Bind sieve-refresh-scriptlist to 'g' in sieve-mode
  • Add optional PREDICATE argument to read-directory-name
  • Change the project-switch-project prompt to include the dir name
  • New command project-find-matching-file
  • Mark package-x.el as obsolete
  • Add go-work-ts-mode for Go workspace files
  • image-dired: Add extra keybinds for navigation
  • Eliminate bookmark-maybe-historicize-string duplicates
  • Don't warn for packages without a footer line
  • Set process-adaptive-read-buffering to nil by default
• New packages:
  • hatty: Query positions through hats (MELPA)
  • ob-pic: Org babel functions for pic language (MELPA)
  • org-gnosis: Roam-like Knowledge Management System (GNU ELPA)
  • package-x: Package extras (GNU ELPA)
  • perl-ts-mode: Another Major mode for Perl (MELPA)
  • radio: Listen to Internet radio (NonGNU ELPA)
  • sideline-eglot: Show eglot information with sideline (MELPA)
  • treesit-fold: Code folding using treesit (NonGNU ELPA)
  • typst-ts-mode: Tree Sitter support for Typst (NonGNU ELPA)

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, communick.news, 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!

• Help wanted:
  • Looking for testers: Nix (Flakes) integration for Eshell (Github)
  • Re: Status of xwidgets support
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #2 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/36aa7507-8a4f-4ab4-bd1f-fa12b5d1accb Tue Feb 11 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Feb 12 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Feb 14 1800 Europe/Paris
  • EmacsSF (in person): coffee.el in SF https://www.meetup.com/emacs-sf/events/306101614/ Sat Feb 15 1100 America/Los_Angeles
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Feb 19 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 20 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC: Emacs APAC meetup (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/announcements/ Sat Feb 22 0030 America/Vancouver - 0230 America/Chicago - 0330 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 0930 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • Tool Time Session 1: Emacs Basics (2020, Reddit)
  • Emacs Tamil Introduction (01:21:28)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Rebuilding my Emacs setup and some beginner tips (04:03:17)
  • Location-Based Themes in Emacs | Epsilon Clue (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: Running one own's commands
  • Hydrogen Framework for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Elpaca Updates
  • Development Environments With Emacs, Nix, and Direnv | tdback.net (@tdback@social.tdback.net)
  • Personalizando Emacs - iAgosto Blog (@agosto182@mast.lat)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • A Beginner's Guide to Extending Emacs (implementing a completion backend for reStructuredText) (Reddit)
  • Elisp Cheatsheet for Python Programmers (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Introduzione al Emacs Lisp (32:51, @nfvblog@mastodon.cloud)
• Appearance:
  • Emacs Redux: Clean Unloading of Emacs Themes (Irreal)
  • NANO Emacs, minimal version in 256 lines (Reddit)
  • kickingvegas/calle24: Calle 24 - Proxy Emacs image assets with SF Symbols (@kickingvegas@sfba.social)
• Navigation:
  • Quickly delete all lines containing a string #emacs #coding #programming (02:47)
  • Meta Redux: Projectile Introduces Significant Caching Improvements (Reddit, Irreal)
• Org Mode:
  • One and a half-hour advanced course on Org Mode (8 videos in one) #emacs #orgmode #org (01:32:15)
  • Interaktive Berechnungs-Formulare mit Org-Mode und Python (@petervennemann@nrw.social)
  • Emacs org-modeを使ったタスク管理一例(2025年) | DevelopersIO (@dev_classmethod@rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com)
  • Programación literaria en Emacs. 2ª Parte. (@maxxcan@mastodon.social)
  • howm meets org-drill: Note-taking tool with flashcards combined (HN)
  • Follow up on emails with mu4e and org capture
  • auto latest commits in org files · GitHub (@DarkBuffalo@mastodon.social)
  • My edited org-habit module (Reddit) - uses glyphs
  • (Update) org-supertag 2.2.9: Added Tag Content Viewer (Github) also, nested tags
  • Import, export, and integration:
    • Chris Maiorana: From Emacs To Microsoft Word (And Beyond, Really) (YouTube 11:35, Irreal)
    • Tory Anderson: snippets that defy orgmode tangling
• Coding:
  • TIL sgml-tags-invisible when editing HTML
  • Navigating Typescript in Emacs with tide-nav.el (Reddit)
  • Magit v4.3.0 released (Irreal)
• Shells:
  • Using Emacs as Terminal Multiplexer on Windows
• Web:
  • Jeremy Friesen: Quick Switch Default Browser
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • mastodon.el 1.1.9: filtered notifications, tag group timelines
  • Karl Voit / tootsnoop · GitLab - archive Mastodon stats, sample usage in Org babel block (@publicvoit@graz.social)
• AI:
  • James Dyer: Ollama Buddy - Local LLM Integration for Emacs (Reddit)
  • RAGmacs - Pt. 1: Retrieving Deep Value in Emacs (09:43)
  • The Augmented Software Engineer - Ep.15 - Emacs/Local (02:25) - ollama
• Community:
  • Eric MacAdie: 2024-02 Austin Emacs Meetup
  • Emacs en Español - Delta Chat (@cr0n0s@social.tchncs.de)
  • 02 - Text Editing Approaches - Vim and Emacs - History (39:49)
• Other:
  • Much Ado about Emacs 007 - Bicycle For Your Mind (@macosxguru@fosstodon.org) - org headers, quick window, marked 2, check parens
  • akib/emacs-ednc-popup: Show EDNC notifications using child frame popups - Codeberg.org (Reddit)
  • DarkBuffalo/kimai.el: Kimai time-tracking application - report last month's activities in Org format (@DarkBuffalo@mastodon.social)
  • Properly Installing Emacs on Windows #emacs #windows #coding #programming (19:22)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Re: Widgets that a GUI toolkit should have for Emacs. - thoughts on immediate-mode toolkits
    • Starting work on translation of GNU Emacs Manual to Chinese (emacs-devel)
    • CL packages in Emacs Lisp revisited - namespaces
    • igc: Some benchmarks
  • ansi-osc-directory-tracker respects remote files
  • Refresh package list without blocking
  • Eliminate savehist duplicated symbols
  • Prioritize split along the longest edge by default.
  • New function insert-special-event and special event sleep-event
  • Make it configurable to highlight Python 2 builtins
  • Merge branch 'master' of git.sv.gnu.org:/srv/git/emacs
  • Don't use obsolete In-Reply-To format in messages (Bug#64454)
  • Add inhibit-auto-revert macro
• New packages:
  • a68-mode: Major mode for editing Algol 68 code (GNU ELPA)
  • auth-source-xoauth2-plugin: authentication source plugin for xoauth2 (GNU ELPA)
  • autorevert-tail-truncate: auto-revert-tail your files with RAM control (GNU ELPA)
  • erlang-ts: Major modes for editing Erlang (MELPA)

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, communick.news, 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!

• Help wanted:
  • F-Droid are in need of a new maintainer for their Emacs package.
• Upcoming events (iCal file, Org):
  • EmacsATX: Emacs Social https://www.meetup.com/emacsatx/events/305908631/ Wed Feb 5 1600 America/Vancouver - 1800 America/Chicago - 1900 America/Toronto – Thu Feb 6 0000 Etc/GMT - 0100 Europe/Berlin - 0530 Asia/Kolkata - 0800 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research: TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Fri Feb 7 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Sat Feb 8 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #2 2025 (v #živo) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/36aa7507-8a4f-4ab4-bd1f-fa12b5d1accb Tue Feb 11 1900 CET
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://orgmode.org/worg/orgmeetup.html Wed Feb 12 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Feb 13 0000 Asia/Singapore
  • Atelier Emacs Montpellier (in person) https://lebib.org/date/atelier-emacs Fri Feb 14 1800 Europe/Paris
• Emacs configuration:
  • Brief thoughts from my adventure into Emacs (@rickwysocki@mas.to) - under the section "Building It Yourself" - minimizing dependencies
  • configuring emacs (04:13)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • Kris Carta: RTFM or: how I'm (re-)learning to love documentation
  • Emacs Redux: Debugging Emacs Commands (Irreal)
  • yaitskov/ert-scope: isolate buffers and files created within a scope of ert test (Reddit)
  • If you have problems with parentheses randomly being deleted, come here - show-paren-context-when-offscreen
  • Obteniendo datos asíncronos de una API con Emacs Lisp | Getting data from an API with Emacs Lisp
  • Dibujando figuras con Emacs (@geekland@mastodon.social)
• Navigation:
  • Fix C-x 1 to maximize side windows instead of failing; toggle back if already maximized
  • Emacs Sticky Buffer
  • a winner mode replacement · Issue #2 · hoverwinter/kys · GitHub (Reddit)
  • my/find-files-with-fd; also, I spent an entire day implementing a function that's already provided by consult
  • Arialdo Martini: Emacs: a peek under Imenu’s hood (Reddit)
  • Watch consult-git-grep_with-file-pattern | Streamable
• Writing:
  • Introduction to Emacs Writing Studio (25:28)
  • Emacs Writing Studio: Ideation (Taking fleeting and permanent notes) (17:22)
  • Emacs Writing Studio: Inspiration (Read e-books, manage a bibliography, surf the web and play music) (23:12)
  • IAST input method for Emacs - International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST)
• Org Mode:
  • Org mode and Spacemacs: The Absolute Minimum you need to know
  • My simple note taking system #emacs #orgmode #coding #programming #notes (05:39)
  • Stupidly Simple Notes Taking With Emacs - TuxeduTV
  • Jeremy Friesen: Seeking Inspiration from the Notes I've Taken
  • Prevent Org-todo from messing with windows - Coping Mechanism (@jbaty@social.lol)
  • (Update) org-supertag Implements Tag Completion
  • Nuke em! Quick search and replace #emacs #org #markdown (01:08)
  • lf-araujo/workbenchless: Single-file Emacs configuration for a powerful scientific Notebook system that works flawlessly over ssh. (Reddit)
  • Construyendo el website Hispa-Emacs.org enteramente desde Emacs - FTV
  • OrgMeetup meeting notes (@yantar92@fosstodon.org)
  • Syncing org-mode reading list to reMarkable tablet
  • Using Emacs and Org-Roam/Org-Node on Android (with Termux Extra Keys and Org-Node)
  • Erik L. Arneson: Configuring Orgzly Interaction with Directory Local Variables
  • nitincodery/org-dex: A browser extension that copies open tabs to your clipboard in org-mode format, ready to use with your org-capture template (Reddit)
• Denote:
  • Emacs Writing Studio (Exploring your Denote digital knowledge garden) (31:17)
  • Emacs Writing Studio (Create and manage literature notes with Citar-Denote) (28:13)
• Completion:
  • James Dyer: Copying completion candidate to the clipboard (Irreal)
• Coding:
  • User experience: eglot configuration - emacs-devel discussion on ideas for making eglot easier to configure
  • Java programming in Emacs using Eglot - YouTube (Reddit)
  • project-headerline: Customizable project headerline (Reddit)
  • Emacs: introduction to VC (version control framework)
  • piem - an Emacs tool for applying patches (01:07:18)
• Math:
  • Gene Goykhman: Quickly summing up the whole stack in Emacs Calc
• Shells:
  • [eshell-smart feature proposal] Preserve previous prompt includes code
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Mu4e configuration diagram
• Evil mode:
  • Little trick on improving evil C-i and C-o (jump back/forward)
• Multimedia:
  • ahihi/sapf.el: Emacs major mode for sapf (@ahihi@anticapitalist.party) - sound as pure form
  • A tour of Ready Player Mode (Reddit)
  • Announcing Casual Image (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Sacha Chua: Improving subed-vtt parsing; using dedicated windows in Emacs; training my intuition
• Fun:
  • Protesilaos Stavrou: Emacs: aLtCaPs version 1.3.0
• AI:
  • Introducing my package gptel-aibo: AI Writing Assistant for Emacs
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread — 2025-01-29 / week 04
  • Irreal: The Experiences Of A Non-technical Emacs User - logistics, Org Mode
  • Why I still use Emacs (09:40)
  • Returning to the Church (of Emacs) (20:55) (Reddit, Irreal)
  • Interview With DistroTube - YouTuber, Opensource Advocate, Emacs User (01:44:50, Reddit)
  • All hail our new overlords /u/mickeyp, /u/github-alphapapa, and /u/Psionikus! - Reddit mods
  • Emacs wird 2025 vierzig! - The editor GNU Emacs will be forty years old in 2025.
  • La Comunidad GNU Emacs - Retrospectiva: Orígenes - Pasado, Presente y Futuro - FTV
  • 1era Hispa Emacs Conf 2025 - FTV (@libretics@mast.lat)
• Other:
  • Package of the ancien world: records-mode
  • log-buffer: Buffers for displaying logs and debugging (Reddit)
  • Marcin Borkowski: ketchup.el - alternative to Pomodoro timers
  • Scraping Emacs Package Listings into SQLite - Real World Scheme Programming #2 (11:12)
  • My experience with Emacs (2022)
  • "New" emacs nightly build for Fedora
  • [FIX] Compiling with tree-sitter in Fedora 41
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • Tips on understanding the igc branch
    • Re: [PATCH v3] Stop highlighting Python2 keywords. - gradually deprecating Python 2
    • A note that the pointer property overrides the cursor shape determined from other sources
    • FreeDOS patches?
  • ; time-stamp: documentation, tests, NEWS
  • Add auto save timer to save-place (bug#75837)
  • New user option 'Buffer-menu-human-readable-sizes'
  • Add new user option bookmark-bmenu-type-column-width
  • Merge branch 'scratch/no-purespace' into 'master'
  • Add new variable tab-bar-format-tab-help-text-function
  • Add treesit-simple-indent-override-rules
  • Add treesit-add-simple-indent-rules
  • Add new user option tab-bar-define-keys
  • Add abnormal hook tab-bar-post-undo-close-tab-functions
  • Hideshow support for tree-sitter in hs-minor-mode (bug#75609)
• New packages:
  • pif: Prevent Initial Flash of Light (MELPA)
  • stillness-mode: Prevent windows from jumping on minibuffer activation (MELPA)

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, communick.news, 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!