To kickstart the Emacs Carnival, and as a hat tip to our recent inspiration, this month’s topic is borrowed from the June IndieWeb Blog Carnival: the topic is “Take Two”, hosted by Nick Simon:

Ever wish for a do-over? “Take two!” (or three, four, etc.) might be shouted by a film director or audio engineer looking to get a somewhat different outcome from a group of actors or musical performers. Would you like a second shot at something that didn’t land?

This is a perfect fit for Emacs users:

We usually don’t nail “it” on our first try – init.el bancruptcy; refactoring hacky Emacs Lisp code; leaving Emacs only to come back englightened much later; running two Emacsens in parallel. There are plenty of possible second takes when it comes to Emacs!

So for this month, our first community blog carnival, I want you to:

• meditate on “Emacs” and “take two”,
• blog about it,
• then send me a link to your blog post.

That’s it! I’ll aggregate submissions for all of June in this post.

Don’t have a blog, yet?

Well, just start one already! :)

It’s the future of the internet!

What’s a Blog Carnival, Again?

This is our first Emacs Carnival, so you may not know the format. A blog carnival is a fun way to tie together a community with shared writing prompts, and marvel at all the creative interpretations of the topic of the month. I’ve provided a couple of interpretations above, but you may think of something else entirely. That’s amazing, roll with it, that’s what makes this fun!

Thanks to Sacha Chua for her post “Working on the plumbing of a small web community” that was part of the May 2025 IndieWeb Carnival, and got me thinking why there’s no Emacs Carnival, yet, and for her encouragement to kickstart this.

For future Carnivals, check out the “Carnival” page on EmacsWiki . It includes instructions, and is our community space to coordinate participants and topic ideas.

Submissions

Comment below or DM/email me with your submission! I’ll collect submissions up to, and including, July 1st (Central European Time), so that every time zone has had a chance to meet the June 30th deadline :)

Bonus: Submit your indie blog post to Nick as well (he really said so)!

These have been submitted as of 2025-06-11:

1. Kemal: Announcing Brainiac Project
2. Jeremy Friesen: “Take Two”
3. Carlos Pajuelo Rojo: “Take two on Emacs (Toma dos de Emacs)”
4. Mike Hostetler: Emacs: Take 2
5. Sacha Chua: Thinking about time travel with the Emacs text editor, Org Mode, and backups
6. Shom: Undo finally clicked with vundo