September 2026 Emacs meetup recap [video]
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Good discussions. Various topics. We went over three hours, so I had to make a shorter recap video.
- We've talked some good amount of gptel-related stuff: Jon mentioned introspective abilities, being able to ask an agent questions about active Emacs instance and troubleshooting is very nice. Karhink published a video two weeks ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHEnWvKmSKM
- My favorite feature of gptel is gptel-send - being able to chat with an LLM from just about any buffer is very cool.
- I made a Consult font picker for the buffer - https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1w31p3u/what_it_feel...
- Groups in gptel model picker
- magit-gha-badge - https://github.com/agzam/magit-gha-badge.el
- pdf-text - https://github.com/agzam/pdf-text
- Discussion around avy, avy-dispatch-alist and the actions key help display.
https://github.com/agzam/.emacs.d/commit/f61087a
https://karthinks.com/software/avy-can-do-anything/
https://github.com/karthink/.emacs.d/blob/master/lisp/setup-avy.el
- Blaine demoes https://github.com/MooersLab/writing-schedule
We then discussed new project that seems related: https://github.com/Gleek/org-timegrid
Blaine used the term "barbel strategy" to explain the idea with his scheduling, but I don't think anyone else were familiar with it, I don't know if this is in relevance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbell_strategy