Thanks to all who contributed to this months #emacs carnival: curious.port111.com/2025/11/0…
It was a privilege to host and to apparently inspire people to share their “People of emacs”. I think my hunch was right: emacs is very social.
Great #emacs carnival post meanwhiling.com/a-person-…
Acdw rams screwdrivers with such joyful fervour that it infects everybody…With the right person to teach and encourage you, you come to realise the fundamental nature of emacs: emacs is just one enormous screw.
For my second entry in this month’s #emacs Carnival ("The people of Emacs") I’ve updated the acknowledgements section of my emacs config and posted it on #orgsocial. Turns out over 40+ years I’ve borrowed good ideas liberally form people form Donald Knuth to Sacha Chua. Thanks.
There is a new Emacs Carnival blog entry from EMacAdie
Who knew you could join the Austin Emacs Meetup EmacsATX remotely? I guess Texas is big enough for all of us :-)
#emacs #emacscarnival
Because everything in #orgsocial is just a text file…
$ ./pull-all-feeds.py https://relay.org-social.org/feeds/
Downloading https://rossabaker.com/social.org to feeds/rossabaker.com/social.org
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For the first time in years I purched a warrenty for a product on Amazon (a new DOCSIS/WiFi router I want to keep working) … 40 minutes later I get spam telling me “my home warrenty has expired” … coincidence, I think not.
Time to start using #fastmail masked email addresses.
I think #denote is going to change the way I work after ~40 years of thinking in terms of directories and folders.
Using org exported .md in micro.blog?
I had to revert to posting my emacscarnival entry on the my old hugo blog: curious.galthub.com/blog/2025… . I rea...Back to the egg - Emacs in the 70s
I’ve put up my #emacscarnival post for December. A look at #emacs in the 70s and some of the people who threw me i...I’ve got a draft post that looks fine in preview but is completly messed up when published. @manton ? Have a look micro.blog/account/p…
I think there are two eternal truths: Amiga fanaticism and a small cadre of GNUs users will never perish from the earth.
We’re doing it wrong. On birthdays we should honor mothers.
NFL "Redzone" is football for football fans with ADD.
For those not familiar (I was not until yesterday) “Redzone” is an (American) football network that constant...Free
This is an excerpt from an entry I wrote for a family newsletter this week. On the way back from Boston, we visited the...I had not tried shell inside #emacs for a while. File name completion works now. Time for another look.
You should always second guess yourself if you have to do something outside emacs.
All’s quiet on the western front.
A man of many stratagems
I Finished reading: The Odyssey by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson) 📚 This translation listens very well in modern eng...I don't /have/ to organize my gear anymore
After 18 years of obsessively maintaining my backpacking “kit” I’m allowing some entropy to creep in. ...Odysseus and Emacs
I’ve started a listen-through of Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey on Audible. The introduction alon...Emacs Carnival, December 2025 - "The People of Emacs"
Emacs Carnival, December 2025 - “The People of Emacs” This is a writing prompt for Emacs Carnival for Decemb...It's Fall. Time to clean up my emacs clutter.
Emacs Workflow Maintenance (or Abandonment) Amid Chaos The moral of the story: don’t declare emacs bankruptcy in t...The path to a world without hold music.
I recently faced frustration while trying to get clarity on my insurance coverage. I discovered a solution that spares m...Happy 4192 day.
September 11, 1985 at Rivverfront stadium in Cincinnati.
Finished reading: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 📚
Worth reading. Not light . Will make you re-think many things about how you view the world, people, etc.
I finished my 18 year 2190 mile project of hiking the Appalachian Trail.
