Joining the Org-mode Maintenance Team

I was checking the news and the org-mode reddit feed when I saw the following post from one of the emcs org mode current maintainers: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [ANN] Join Org mode contributor liaison team and help maintaining Org mode Dear all, TL;DR: We are looking for volunteers who are ready to help with initial review of 4 to 8 bugs, patches, or feature requests every month. No deep Elisp skills required; just being kind. "Initial review" can be as simple as marking new emails for our bug tracker by replying with "Confirmed." in email body to bug reports. Without much hope, I replied: ...

May 3, 2026 · 2 min · Juan Gonzalez

Hello World: Starting a new blog

Welcome to my blog! I've migrated from a heavy Jekyll template to a much simpler, faster Hugo site using the PaperMod theme. The old setup was overkill. It relied on Ruby, Node.js, Docker, and had hundreds of configuration files. Now, my workflow is incredibly simple: Write files in Emacs using Org-mode. Run hugo to build (or just let GitHub Actions do it). Occasionally write a quick file on my phone, which syncs seamlessly. I will try to force myself and actually post new blog entries every week or so. You can expect to read about (but not limited to): ...

May 1, 2024 · 1 min · Juan Gonzalez