I'm Rewriting My Configuration… Again

• System Crafters Store Holiday Sale! https://store.systemcrafters.net/discount/HOLIDAY
• EmacsConf 2021 this weekend!

Here are some cool talks you might want to check out!

Saturday

• Emacs News Highlights - Sacha Chua
• The True Frownies are the Friends We Made Along the Way: An Anecdote of Emacs's Malleability - Case Duckworth
• GNU's Not UNIX: Why Emacs Demonstrates The UNIX Philosophy Isn't Always The Only Answer - Daniel Rose
• How Emacs Made Me Appreciate Software Freedom - Protesilaos Stavrou
• A day in the life of a janitor - Stefan Monnier
• Org as an executable format - Tom Gillespie
• Creating technical API documentation and presentations using org-babel, restclient, and org-treeslide - Jan Ypma
• The use of Org Mode syntax outside of Emacs - Karl Voit
• Budgeting, Project Monitoring and Invoicing with Org Mode - Adolfo Villafiorita
• Emacs with Nyxt: extend your editor with the power of a Lisp browser - Andrea
• Emacs development update - John Wiegley
• On the design of text editors - Nicolas Rougier
• CANCELLED! Don't write that package! or: How I learned to stop worrying and love emacs-devel - Stefan Kangas

Sunday

• Extending the model of Emacs to other applications - Laszlo Krajnikovszkij
• Emacs Lisp native compiler, current status and future developments - Andrea Corallo
• Emacs Application Framework: 2021 Update - Matthew Zeng
• How to help Emacs maintainers? - Bastien Guerry
• How to build an Emacs - Fermin MF
• M-x Forever: Why Emacs will outlast text editor trends - Me! (It's me!)

Next year will be interesting! I've got some ambitious plans for my personal projects and I've been thinking a lot about what changes I need to make to my personal configuration and my streaming setup.

Starting a new channel to focus on building audio/visual tools from scratch and making things with them!

Need to have multiple desktop environment configurations for different use cases:

• EXWM from System Crafters videos/streams
• Another window manager for A/V tool hacking streams (dwm, i3, StumpWM, Guile-WM, bspwm/herbsluftwm)
• Multi-PC streaming setup to ensure that nothing I do kills the stream
• Maybe use a different Linux distribution for the media machine

• Maybe setting up a shared base configuration (bare-emacs, needs a better name) and build on that
• Invest more in converting to Guix Home
• However, try to find the balance between Guix Home and normal config files
• Creating a better configuration website and presentation

• Visual demonstrations with graphics
• Having a more interesting screen layout (experiment with OBS)
• More/better music for System Crafters videos and streams
• Multiple cameras
• Synchronizing activity between machines for streaming and recording

The new YouTube channel I was talking about: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ4HO8or08HUGUzA0w8Tagw