April 12th 2026 - Rediscovering Elfeed and Reading
Interesting things I came across today
Carnival
Reading through Sacha's posts I learned about Emacs Carnival. Its a monthly blog event where Emacs users can write about their experiences with Emacs. Usually themed around some particular topic or aspect of Emacs.
Reading through Carnival I came across George Jones's blog. That's where I learned about Org Social which I'll discuss below.
Org Social
Org Social a blogging/social network platform that can be viewed and used all from within an org file.
Here's a Quick start guide
Unfortunately, I need to wait until emacs-mac upgrades to version 30.1 in order to install social.el
N64 Open World Game Engine
James Lambert built his own N64 open world game engine.
Rediscovering Elfeed
I rediscovered that I had Elfeed installed on my Emacs. This led to reading through some of Sacha and Prot's posts. They always have great insights and info to share.
Elfeed used to be (and probably still is) my favorite way to discover new things on the internet. For a long time the world wide web didn't feel so wide. My internet usage was mainly watching YouTube videos, reading HackerNews, and playing puzzle games on LinkedIn. I had tried exploring blogs I had learned about, mainly on HackerNews, but the practice of reading them consistently never stuck.
That was until I installed Elfeed. Living in Emacs, for my writing and research work, made it easy to check in on Elfeed several (way too many) times per day whenever I wanted to take a break. I just add a blog I discover to my rss feed list and enjoy reading the posts throughout the day.
Reading
I started becoming more intentional about my reading. I came across this question on Quora on how to more easily get into reading books. The top answer by Abhimanyu Sood gave a wonderful little method where you read 1 page per day for the first week and then increase the number of pages per day every week after. By the end of one year you'd have read the equivalent of 30+ books using this method. Per year, I think I would normally read around 4 books so the prospects of reading 30+ per year sounds very appealing.
So far this week has been pretty easy using this method. I feel eager to read more. Below are some things I'm reading.
The Hobbit Reading Summary
Gandalf tricked the trolls to bicker with each other until sunrise and they turned to stone. Gandalf and Bilbo freed the dwarves. They found a door on the side of a mountain and Bilbo had the key which he took from the trolls. They went inside and grabbed some food and gold before leaving.
The Eye of the World Reading Summary
The Kinslayer remembers killing his family and then teleports somewhere else. He tries to summon some magic.
Atomic Habits Reading Summary
It talked about pushing past the Plateau of Latent Potential where people start to lose hope on the little progress they're making but this plateau is right before the big exponential changes start to happen.
Prot's Elisp Book Reading Summary
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