Álvaro Ramírez writes about Emacs tooling, macOS and iOS integration, and his own apps such as Journelly.
Commenters say he is doing excellent work for Emacs, recommend his blog to Emacs fans, and one bought his iOS app on other users' advice.
Oh sweet summer child.
http://xahlee.info/emacs/misc/emacs_macos_emoji.html
Color emoji was deliberately disabled on macOS (2016): policy first, parity later. Emacs 25 turned off multicolor fonts on the Cocoa port even though they worked, with a NEWS note saying they’d be re-enabled "once it is also implemented in Emacs on free operating systems." This was widely read as a political parity requirement that penalized macOS users for years.
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html
"Prefer GNU/GNU-Linux" development time: an explicit guideline. GNU’s own standards advise spending time on features "useful on GNU and GNU/Linux, rather than on supporting other incompatible systems." That guideline has often been cited in Emacs discussions to argue against platform-specific work that would land only on macOS.
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=13137
https://xenodium.com/emacs-send-to-aka-macos-sharing-merged-upstream
macOS-only features face extra process friction, or must be generalized. The "send-to" (macOS Sharing) patch was finally merged in 2025 -- but only after a lengthy debate and a rework into a cross-platform framework to satisfy GNU policy concerns about adding features that target a non-free OS first. (The end result is good! -- but the path illustrates the extra hurdles for macOS-first work.)
https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac
Long-running reliance on mac-specific forks to get a polished UX. For years, many mac users have depended on Mitsuharu…
I love Emacs, and while that tour doesn't quite look 1978, it sure doesn't look 2026 either. Maybe somewhere in the middle.. yup, 2002 seems about right.
And for some reason, most of the screenshots on that page are in super low res, e.g. I see https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/images/gnus-small.png instead of https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/images/gnus.png , I really don't see why they'd want to make it look even worse.
And then on the other hand you have people like Nicolas Rougier https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fpbg8rzynfn9e1.png or Álvaro Ramírez https://xenodium.com/awesome-emacs-on-macos who show how great it can really look.
While the indieweb doesn't need to take off, I sure would love to see /some/ growth. The internet is a big place, so even a small but active percentage would offer sanctuary to folks wanting out of walled gardens, constant tracking, bloat, advertising...
I'd really like to see blogs be part of that small, but hopefully constant growth. We can builds hybrids that lean on some of the early greatness (rss), but also make it easy to publish (markdown) without the typical bloat, tracking, advertising, etc. of the modern web. Here's my attempt at building such a blogging service https://LMNO.lol. My blog runs on that too https://xenodium.com.
Xenodium is doing amazing things for emacs. If you enjoy this or are generally emacs interested, I’d check out his blog @ https://xenodium.com/
I also purchased my first iOS app upon recommendation from other emacs users - the author’s app, Journelly. A simple portable place to save down links or notes and export out as org files (as one option; apparently markdown is on the way). https://xenodium.com/journelly-for-ios
No affiliation to Xenodium. I’ve just been diving into emacs this year and love seeing his contributions.
There is a format called todo.txt that works follows very readable syntax (like your own example) and has some minimal bells and whistles if you want it to: http://todotxt.org/
As an alternative: I started using org-mode 5 years ago and have never looked back. This is my workflow (https://karelvo.com/blog/orgmode) although I sync it via Git now, and have an iPhone where I use Plain Org (https://xenodium.com/plain-org-for-ios).
It's odd. There multiples problems on that blog.
https://xenodium.com/emacs-as-your-video-trimming-tool/
Is fixed and also fix various typo in the blog post. Bbut has other bugs, for example, the title link redirect to the bugged URL.
But (the bugged URL):
https://xenodium.com/emacs-as-your-video-trimming-tool Have the problems with relative links you talked about.