Topic - Live
Livestream
Current / notes for next time
TODO Prepare Emacs News for 2026-04-13
TODO Follow up on conversation with Prot
- #YayEmacs 10: Emacs coaching with Prot: Emacs workflows and streaming
- Moved the functions of my config into .el files and renamed to
sacha-prefix - Set up mode for livestreaming
- Saves variables, changes agenda / refile targets / capture templates, changes theme, etc.
- Used C-z to toggle live.org and C-Z to toggle now.org
- Moved the functions of my config into .el files and renamed to
- GNU Emacs configuration | Protesilaos Stavrou
- Sacha Chua's Emacs configuration
Questions I'm thinking about:
- Do you sometimes find yourself copying non-packaged code from other people? How do you like to integrate it into your config, keep references to the source, check for updates?
- You've mentioned that you don't really go back into your videos to listen to them. I was wondering what could make the livestreamed recordings more useful to either the person who made them, people who watched it live, or people who come across it later.
- A few types of livestreams:
- Code
- Chat
- Present a topic
- Before writing a post
- After writing a post
- React
- A few types of livestreams:
Timestamps
Updates
- I set up C-z to toggle my live.org and C-Z to toggle my now.org.
- maxxcan posted a Spanish translation of How to Learn Emacs: A Hand-drawn One-pager for Beginners / A visual tutorial; thanks!
- I'm trying out
(setq which-key-show-prefix 'top), might need a small patch to which-key - I'm trying out org-autolist.
- YE11: Fix find-function for Emacs Lisp from org-babel or scratch
Some things we can talk about if people are curious
- Now I can have shortcuts like delete-other-windows-vertically
- Emacs News
- my Emacs configuration
- bug-hunter: Ooh, pierre-rouleau/elisp-bug-hunter has my header/footer code and some new fixes, let me try that
- probably should put together the which-key-display-prefix patch
- sachac/learn-lang: Some tools for learning languages with Emacs - Codeberg.org
- sachac/speech-input: Experimenting with a speech-based interface for Emacs - Codeberg.org
Related blog posts and resources
- YE13: Working on modularizing my config - YouTube (1:23:26)
- YE12: Putting together Emacs News for 2026-04-06, epwgraph for Pipewire, learning languages - YouTube (1:19:48)
- YE11: Fix find-function for Emacs Lisp from org-babel or scratch (8:19 + post)
- YE10: Emacs coaching with Prot: Emacs workflows and streaming (1:06:30 + post)
- Extract PDF highlights into an Org file with Python (4:27 + post)
- YE9: Trimming/adding silences to get to a target; subed-record-sum-time (0:56 + post)
- Emacs Carnival February 2026: Completion
Meta
I want to get better at livestreaming while I tinker with Emacs because:
- Getting into the habit of talking out loud while I code might help me retrace my steps or my logic, like Bookclub tapas.
- I want to turn those demonstrations or discussions into blog posts with screenshots or video clips. If I note down rough timestamps or capture screenshots, I can use those for chapters, and then I can review the transcript once it's available.
- Other people might notice something that I take for granted and then I can help them learn more about it. I can share more of my implicit knowledge.
- Other people might even help me get unstuck or let me know about things I haven't gotten the hang of yet.
- There might eventually be a time when it will be difficult for me to get outside, so it might be helpful to have more ways to enjoy social interaction and mental stimulation.
A few other Emacs streamers:
- Protesilaos: themes, utilities, community, philosophy; site, Emacs config
- DistroTube
- Andrew Tropin
- Xah Lee
- Divya: Canvas patch / Emacs Reader, sometimes pair-programs via CRDT
- David (System Crafters): Doesn't use Emacs as much these days, interested in AI and LLMs
- lcolonq: Long streams, coding, hanging out; occasionally tweaks Emacs; lcolonq/wasp - Emacs bits for stream setup
- Incidental:
sources: Reddit