Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Sharing

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 30, 2026

• Sacha Chua ☛ Clip: Emacs voice control - describing my setup during Linkarzu's livestream

  linkarzu wins the clip-off thanks to his fancy AI-powered clipping process! Here's a snippet from our conversation today. He'll be posting more clips, and I'm also going to edit the transcript of the conversation. Fun fun fun!

• Sacha Chua ☛ EmacsConf: Using message-sent-hook to run buffer-specific code to keep track of e-mailed schedules

  I send the messages within Emacs, of course. This lets me use emacsconf-mail.el to mail-merge using Emacs Lisp. I can then use message-sent-hook to run buffer-specific code once I've sent the message. This lets me set it up so that each message updates its own talk once I've used C-c C-c to send it.

• Sal ☛ Some useful Vim stuff for prose

  A lot of Vim tricks are geared toward working with source code, which I don’t do so much anymore. Below are some that are specifically helpful for working with prose.

• Protesilaos Stavrou ☛ Emacs live refining ‘ef-themes’ Diff/Magit colours at 2026-10-29 18:00 Europe/Athens

  This is a spontaneous live stream that starts in ~10 minutes. I will do some work on my ef-themes package for Emacs. I want to tweak the color values of all themes in order to achieve inter-theme consistency as I noticed some cases that are problematic.

• James Cherti ☛ proxymacs.el - An Emacs package for configuring HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS proxies with optional authentication

  The proxymacs Emacs package simplifies HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS proxy configuration. It supports HTTP/HTTPS proxies and SOCKS4, SOCKS4a, and SOCKS5.

• It's FOSS ☛ openEuler New Releases Come With a Heavy Dose of Hey Hi (AI) and Agents [Ed: Terrible idea, FOMO hype]

  openEuler is pushing for a developer focused GNU/Linux distro with Hey Hi (AI) at its core. From PolyMind to Witty, the Hey Hi (AI) agents are part of the package.

• SaaS/Back End/Databases

  • Ham Vocke ☛ Analyze Git Logs in Style With DuckDB

    Sometimes I find myself in a situation where I want to learn more about the history of a git repository. The git history can tell me a lot about the obvious stuff (“what happened recently in this repo?”, “when was this particular change made and by whom?”) but it can hold much more information than you’d think. I’ve looked at the git history to figure out things like: [...]

• Education

  • Hackaday ☛ 2026 Hackaday Supercon: All The Speakers!

    We announced our first round of speakers, and then the workshops, and we were going to dribble out updates on the rest of the speakers as they came in, but then time slipped away from us. So we are left here announcing a veritable cornucopia of twenty wonderful talks that you absolutely won’t want to miss.

• Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

  • Open Data

    • Cory Dransfeldt ☛ Putting music data to work

      I had someone ask me the other day why I collect all the music data that I do and I wasn't sure how to answer. Some of it's an interest in my own listening patterns, and another part of it is nostalgia for the last.fm I used heavily during its heyday. I guess I like quantifying those things. It's become a bit more than that too — I curate artist bios, I pull in genre descriptions from Wikipedia, and I fiddle with metadata. I also put some of this data to work.