Most of the time, when you hear that a free software project is struggling, it is too late. E.g. both pdf-tools and helm don’t have a maintainer since a few days: did you see this coming?
Org is doing quite well, but I feel we are at a turning point: either we attract more contributors and we can afford to fix more bugs and deliver new releases, or we might get overwhelmed by user requests and lose both our energy and our motivation to continue. — Org 9.4 is out. Can you help?

Yesterday I watched Alabama Monroe (The Broken Circle Breakdown). What an emotional bombshell!

I already said in one of my recent posts on the main blog that I rarely use Stata these days. Yet I continue reading the Stata blog, and I was happy to see Chuck Huber taking the lead on the most recent posts. At the time of this writing, this is all about Python integration, which I find nice after all. I have a somewhat outdated version of Stata since I’m no longer a Stata trainer for public and private companies, but I remain interested in how Stata is evolving. #stata

slimhtml is an Emacs org-mode export backend. It is a set of transcoders for common org elements which outputs minimal HTML. #emacs #org

A guide on disabling/enabling lsp-mode features. #emacs

One of the delightful and surprising things about Emacs, as you get to know it better, is the depth of customisation which is available. Emacs can be a completely different editor for different people and for different purposes. — Advising Emacs

Exploratory data analysis in Chez Scheme. #scheme

Helping people online is difficult. We expect technical questions and discussions, but everyone involved are just people, so it doesn’t always go smoothly. There’s no way to guarantee a good outcome, but there are things we as helpers can do to improve the interactions. — How to be helpful online

Comby is a tool for searching and changing code structure.

The Conjugate Gradient method: A geometrical explanation.