A paper jam didn't just ruin his print job; it forced him to launch a global revolution about software freedom. He didn’t just write a text editor; he wrote a self-extending, Lisp-based universe disguised as one. He won a MacArthur "Genius" Grant and used the money to fight proprietary software. He is The Most Free Man In The World. #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #GNU #Linux #Emacs
https://www.kindness.city/blog/2026-03-22-care.html
A bit of a ranty blog today.
I really want to write software that's actually good.
Increasingly, I believe the trick to doing this isn't #types, or #proglang , or formal methods, or #agile, or #XP, or #TDD, or any other fancy technique, process, or technology. It's Care.
And the reason most software still sucks? It's not stupidity, and it's not because everyone else has been duped by the "wrong" development ideology (waterfall, formal methods, agile, etc). It's the Market.
Here's what #openbsd , #slackware, and #emacs are teaching me about taking the time to work on what matters.
In about 24 hours from this toot
@oantolin
https://www.matem.unam.mx/~omar/
https://github.com/oantolin/embark
will be on the Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas #lispyGopherClimate on anonradio (archive still https://toobnix.org/a/screwtape/videos ) to talk about
- actually, I am not a user (yet) but I am interested in other #lisp community takes on embark's #DWIM plementation (well known in #interlisp https://interlisp.org/software/using-medley/#getting-started for example). Exploring the minibuffer theme viz @chiply last week.
Thoughts plea
@yantar92 #interview on the #lispyGopherClimate Sunday-Morning-in-Europe
So please #AMA in this thread, where "me" in this case is Ihor and "anything" is "questions about orgmode <dev>"
Tuesday-night-in-Americas was Charlie Holland (KMP, Ramin, mdh, sacha, ..) on "emacs minibuffer style" incremental completing read and lisp https://toobnix.org/w/imfwummHKcycJoujnGVjgy
Last week was bagder of Curl (feat KMP, Ramin, the moo crowd) https://toobnix.org/w/rPKt4GRBwLeWzF3VcMFWNo
#lisp #dev #softwareEngineering #emacs #orgmode #pleaseBoost
I have officially retired from Emacs https://lobste.rs/s/plertt #emacs #vibecoding
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/04/26/
Uhhh, guys? This looks real bad
"GNU Emacs: Multiple Remote Code Execution Vectors on File Open"
https://github.com/califio/publications/blob/main/MADBugs/vim-vs-emacs-vs-claude/Emacs.md
Could your recommend a source of good wallpapers? or some particular cool ones?
Usually, I have plain gray background and light high contrast color schemes in terminal, browser and text editor. I want to experiment with transparency and (probably) dark color scheme, as light doesn't play well with opacity.
My first attempt: it looks nice-ish, but I feel much more strain on the eyes. Maybe I can workaround with better #wallpaper?
Stealing from the Best Emacs Configs via @fanf https://lobste.rs/s/yesukk #emacs
https://emacsredux.com/blog/2026/04/07/stealing-from-the-best-emacs-configs/
After a dry spell I'm finally booked for enough work to need #OrgMode and #OrgAgenda again to keep track, and when I opened Agenda again for the first time since mid-2025 things were obviously A Mess. 💫 Some to-do items had been rescheduled almost 200 times, untracked habits lay forgotten and dying. It took < 5 minutes to clear or triage though, and Agenda became usable again with the peace of mind that work tasks won't slip through the cracks.
Honestly the Org Mode/Agenda system fills the niche of a Bullet Journal (which I also tried for a few years) for me in being easy to come back to after I inevitably drop off from time to time. And that's a good thing, not only because I get to have an organization system even after being away for a while, but because there are stretches of life when a system genuinely isn't necessary and may do more harm than good. It's nice to be able to move fluidly between the states. #Emacs #ADHD
Git fixup is magic (and Magit is too) https://lobste.rs/s/2urycz #emacs #vcs
https://arialdomartini.github.io/git-fixup
Os dejo un espero que útil artículo de iniciación a #emacs y a la vez un agradecimiento para cierta persona.
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Here’s an introductory article on #emacs that I hope you’ll find useful—and also a big thank you to a certain person. @hispaemacs @Notxor @sacha
Cómo aprender Emacs gráficamente gracias a Sacha Chua.
Ya estamos rumbo a la #hispaemacs Conf. de 2026. Entretanto, nos seguiremos reuniendo online mensualmente.
¿ Te sumas ? 😀
A Technical Guide to Compiling Emacs for Performance on Linux and Unix systems https://lobste.rs/s/zihixw #emacs
https://www.jamescherti.com/compiling-emacs/
Annotate-in-Place Notes with Emacs and org-remark https://lobste.rs/s/kdqqzb #emacs
https://www.chiply.dev/post-annotate-in-place
Hey everyone, we are going to do the livestream around now
#archive
https://toobnix.org/w/c7AV5CfaYYJaX1gqV4B9L1
@kentpitman #demo of #teco , #ITS #emacs #peertube #live !
Going live in a few minutes, for some number of minutes. Retoots welcome.
Will make the regular toot post ex facto at 8UTC Sunday (one hour from now).
Every 0UTC Wednesday!
there will of course be the Tuesday-evening-in-the-Americas #lispyGopherClimate #live on
#archive
https://toobnix.org/w/eCCvKBZvuwkXj244ojjzTU
!
- show starts with @kentpitman #haiku and a discussion of the #climateCrisis
Kent and Ramin will join today for a discussion of #lisp #IDE s.
Kent scanned his historical c. 1980 #TECO #emacs cheatsheet: https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/116484262128356625
Ramin's #schemacs https://emacsconf.org/2025/talks/schemacs/
viz Smith's new mine #staticTyping #coalton ide.
+ the emacs/ide ecosystem.
I have a new blog post about the annotate-in-place note taking pattern in Emacs!
This pattern brings the benefits of annotating physical documents with pen/paper to the digital note taking space, with a ton more features. It supports a variety of sources (files, web pages, elfeed, nov.el, etc...), and it can be easily extended to support new ones (elfeed, pubmed, wombag, etc....).
Enjoy!
Notes on using GNU Emacs' Tramp system in an unusual shell environment via @fanf https://lobste.rs/s/vwjrsl #emacs
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsTrampNotes
Moving from lsp-mode in GNU Emacs to Eglot via @fanf https://lobste.rs/s/bojb9a #emacs
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsLspModeToEglot
Concerning Emacs (and Jazz) https://lobste.rs/s/dt7jn8 #emacs
https://omidmash.de/blog/concerning-emacs
https://toobnix.org/w/mu2Wm3Y7F6dBbqBivkXL1x
#climateCrisis #poem @kentpitman
- Comments on responsible dialog, many notes
@prahou and @davidrevoy 's #exquisiteCorpse #art #unix_surrealism https://gamerplus.org/@screwlisp/116518727790621795
/Next Sunday/Tuesday/Sunday/ upcoming guests: @bagder #curl @chiply #emacs @yantar92 #orgMode
#lisp / #commonLisp / #acl2 since I did not finish, my #commonLisp *my* #hextille wishlist https://lispy-gopher-show.itch.io/dl-roc-lisp/devlog/1502166/six-dimensional-hextille-boondoggle-acl2-mcclim-common-lisp before @jackdaniel 's coming #ELS #ecl #McCLIM thing.
Tomorrow, "Tuesday evening in the Americas" #lispyGopherClimate #podcast will feature @chiply and we will be talking about fancy #emacs #autocomplete, its #lisp diaspora (#McCLIM completions!), antecedents and... Future.
Thoughts (and prayers) here please. #AMA (about the topic. Me mainly being https://www.chiply.dev/post-vompeccc-spot in this case.).
Edit: Aside, it probably does to mention for context that the following Sunday will be @yantar92 on #orgmode .
The Most Emacs Bzr Saga via @confusedalex https://lobste.rs/s/jgmrz0 #emacs #historical #vcs
https://thanosapollo.org/posts/bzr-saga/
