About the Curator
EmacsNews is curated by Timothy Johnson, an Emacs enthusiast and knowledge worker who believes that a well-configured editor is the foundation of a productive workflow.
Background
My professional life spans scientific research, AI engineering, and high-performance computing. Across all of it, Emacs has been my constant companion — from writing research papers in Org-mode to managing projects with org-agenda, from editing code across a dozen languages to wrangling remote servers via TRAMP.
I discovered Emacs while looking for a better way to blog. What started as a text editor quickly became an operating environment: email, version control, task management, and literate programming all inside one coherent system. That experience fundamentally changed how I think about tools and productivity.
Why EmacsNews?
The Emacs community is extraordinarily productive but spread across dozens of blogs, forums, and repositories. Keeping up means checking Reddit, Planet Emacslife, individual bloggers like Protesilaos Stavrou and Karthinks, MELPA for new packages, Hacker News for the occasional deep-dive — the list goes on.
EmacsNews monitors 15+ sources every six hours so you don't have to. It surfaces articles about Emacs, Org-mode, Elisp, Magit, Doom Emacs, Spacemacs, and the wider ecosystem in one clean, privacy-respecting feed. No tracking. No ads. No accounts. Just the content that matters.
The goal is simple: help Emacs users spend less time finding good content and more time in their favourite editor.
Get in Touch
Whether you want to suggest a new source, report a bug, or just chat about Emacs workflows — I'd love to hear from you.