If you are interested in why middle age computer scientists like #emacs, there’s a brand new introductory guide available:

https://github.com/cloudstreet-dev/Emacs-for-Goodness-Sake

This year I put a lot more work into #Orgro (https://orgro.org). I released a bunch of big features:

- Search result navigation UI
- SVG support
- Editing support! 🎉
- Undo/redo
- Jump to/from footnotes
- Support for local variables, #+STARTUP settings
- (Soon!) Decryption/reencryption of Org Crypt sections

The wildest yak shave I went on was support for local variables: I made an entire Elisp execution engine in order to support the `eval` keyword! (Don't tell Apple 🤫)

#Emacs #orgmode

#Emacs best kept #dired secret: C-x C-q.

The buffer becomes editable, so you can do all sorts of fun things quickly. I like using macros to do file renames, especially when it would take me longer to figure out the regex/pattern than it would for me to record the keystrokes I want effected.

When I launched #Orgro, my mobile #Emacs #orgmode app, in 2020, one of the first feature requests I got was support for editing.

I'm happy to announce, three years later, that experimental editing support is ready for beta testing:
https://github.com/amake/orgro/issues/6#issuecomment-1713920175

Dear #babashka friends!

Just finished up writing the babashka http-client today and I think it's ready to be used. Please provide your feedback while this library is in flux so we can move it to a built-in somewhere in 2023!

https://github.com/babashka/http-client

#clojure #babashka

Nbb is a complete and interactive #clojurescript-ing environment for Node.js. It's a little over 1MB of optimized JS and includes all docstrings of #clojure core functions. Yet it starts pretty fast: 70ms on a Macbook Air M1, of which 25ms is Node.js startup time.

#nbbcljs

A new version of SCI: Small Clojure Interpreter, used in #babashka, #nbb, etc.

JS interop now got 5-7x faster and various other improvements

https://github.com/babashka/sci/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0637-2022-12-20

#clojure #clojurescript