As an Emacs user, few things are as delightful as catching my favorite text editor out in the wild. It doesn’t happen often though – Emacs is niche, and pop culture rarely gives it a nod. This post tracks down every one I know of (as of June 2026), and I’ll keep adding to it as I stumble across more.

Image board style fedi front end with a emphasis on gallery view

{
  header: "Welcome to my blog",
  post: "$1",
  footer: "Hope you like it"
}
/* $1 */
{
  content: "This is my article",
  comments: "$2"
}
/* $2 */
[
  "This is the first comment",
  "This is the second comment",
  "This is the third comment"
]

Federated forge.

Like RSS and Google Reader.

A spec for a web subset that's even simpler. Some questionable choices.