April 18th 2026 - Interesting Finds
- HackerNews package for emacs
- Sacha uses voice to control yasnippets
- solo-rpg for playing solo roleplaying games
- markdown-mode
Howard Abrams doing cool things with literate programming
Abrams uses snippets to extend the functionality of inserting code blocks.
He may do things like <sl to insert a code block for lisp or <slf to prefill a code block with some boilerplate code.
He also has a unique way of searching org files by headers. We can do something similar with consult-outline.
See an idea I had for literate programming and AI agents.
Japan has private roads and rails
Japan, one of the countries with great highway and railway infrastructure, privatized them in 2005. This has been a critical step in improving the quality of transportation in Japan.
Which is heavier? An hourglass with sand flowing or an hourglass at rest
Textbooks tend to give 3 different answers to this question so The Action Lab actually tested it. After his first experiment it seemed like there was no net change between flowing and rest states but after making some modifications to get better results he proves that it really is heavier when the sand is falling.
M-x manual-entry
This can be used to see the man page for Unix utilities.
MDV - Markdown with extended capabilities
Its a nice project but at what point does Markdown just become org-mode? The nice thing about org-mode in Emacs is you can use lisp to extend what your document does.