This is a fairly niche thing, but maybe there's a couple others out there who can use it. I wrote this several years back and still use it regularly, so thought it was time to make it public.

I use Org Mode to manage my calendar, but I also need:

• Access to it on my phone, in some kind of mobile-friendly way. Unfortunately, Emacs isn't that, so I use org-export's iCalendar backend to generate and upload .ics files, which I subscribe to on my mobile calendar.
• I often put appointments that need to occur at a physical location on my calendar (dentist, interview, etc), and need to easily get directions to those places on my phone.

If you set the LOCATION property of an entry in Org Mode, that gets put into the location of that appointment in the .ics file, which makes it very easy to bring up navigation from the calendar.

org-street is a tool to make populating those locations easy. It uses OSM's free Nominatim geocoding service (by way of another library I wrote) to transform text like "ground kontrol" into its physical address, and automatically put it in the LOCATION property. Nominatim is completely free and requires no account, API keys, or other such barrier to entry nonsense, so there's zero setup required.

I'm sure there are other interesting things that can be done with the nominatim and/or org-street packages as well.

This adds "pure GTK" support to Emacs, which offloads much of the complex GUI code into the toolkit library, and means Emacs doesn't have to care whether it's running on X11 or Wayland, because GTK can deal with that.

Here's the thread where the idea was originally proposed.

I've been looking for a good built-in dictionary/thesaurus for a while. Found this earlier this week, and it works great!

This is an expanded blog post about EIEIO and CLOS, based on my EmacsConf 2021 talk.

The API docs on join-lemmy.org are actually JavaScript SDK docs, not API docs. I want to build an API client in a different language, not write a JavaScript thing using the SDK, and would prefer not to plumb the JS SDK code to understand the API.

Is there somewhere that has a language-agnostic description of Lemmy's APIs?