Andros Fenollosa Full-stack developer, teacher and writer Creator of Org Social and Django LiveView ---------------------------------------------------------------- Digital footprint ------- Website => https://andros.dev Org Social => https://host.org-social.org/andros/social.org IRC => andros_dev in libera.chat Devlog ------- --- 2026-10-08 --- I just integrated a patch into termweb.el to support Wiktionary. It's very interesting to read definitions in the terminal. --- 2026-10-01 --- I find a solution to read and write WhatsApp messages in Emacs. I wrote a small article about it: https://en.andros.dev/blog/782e8f3b/how-i-built-a-whatsapp-client-for-emacs-without-an-api/ --- 2026-09-23 --- I just started the Org Social client for Android. In addition, I am writing an article teaching the different architectural layers of Org Social. That's important to explain the why and the how of each piece. --- 2026-09-22 --- I picked up an old idea that was dancing around in my head: a layer to reformat web pages when I visit them with EWW. I wrote a standard for designing https://en.andros.dev/blog/dcf8f636/websites-that-read-in-the-terminal-the-termweb-standard/ and a middleware for Emacs https://git.andros.dev/andros/termweb.el --- 2026-09-20 --- presence.el is now in beta. https://git.andros.dev/andros/presence.el --- 2026-09-18 --- I started a new Emacs package: presence.el . You will be able to see when your friends are online, away or offline, and send and read simple messages in Emacs. Currently, I am working on the documentation. https://git.andros.dev/andros/presence.el --- 2026-09-10 --- I just released a new version of the Org Social client for iOS. I added support for 0x0.sh endpoints, so you can now upload and insert images into your posts. Also, if you are looking for extra privacy, you canhost your own instance and set a custom URL. This feature was actually requested by a user. --- 2026-09-09 --- I am working on my slides for Ubuntu Commit. --- 2026-09-07 --- I released my nonogram game for Emacs: https://git.andros.dev/andros/nonogram.el It is simple, monochrome, and has a small set of puzzles. I will add more in the future. I spent a few weeks working on this game before releasing the lastest version. --- 2026-09-03 --- Recently I read https://unsung.aresluna.org/i-just-chose-words-carefully/, by Marcin Wichary, and it fascinated me. So I published a new article on justifying text manually, but with approaches for mobile: https://en.andros.dev/blog/079a7eaa/justifying-text-by-hand-now-at-35-columns/ --- 2026-08-30 --- Today I finished the article about Nostr and BBS! https://en.andros.dev/blog/4c4e1b40/building-a-decentralized-bulletin-board-and-accidentally-reinventing-nostr/ Because I needed to learn the different protocols in depth, I understood that there is no such thing as full decentralization. So, a bit later, I wrote another article with my reflections: https://en.andros.dev/blog/603e4e90/there-is-no-such-thing-as-full-decentralization/ --- 2026-08-29 --- I published a new article about how to migrate from htmx to Django LiveView: https://en.andros.dev/blog/94d14a9e/htmx-and-django-liveview-side-by-side/ I built a search Kagi from inside Emacs: https://git.andros.dev/andros/kagi-search.el --- 2026-08-28 --- I finished "How I organize my Emacs configuration" article that I wrote 1 month ago but I never give time to review. Now is avaible here https://en.andros.dev/blog/dc7db35a/how-i-organize-my-emacs-configuration/ Besides, I am working on another, more extensive article about Nostr and BBS. --- 2026-08-27 --- I made Org Social Mirror: a read-only REST API that mirrors the profiles and posts published on the Org Social relay at relay.andros.dev https://mirror.org-social.org Beside, I added the integration with the iOS client. Also, I updated the website with the documentation. Finally, I updated Meshmonitor Chat on iOS with Retry button and status indicator. --- 2026-08-26 --- I redesigned the Django LiveView website: https://django-liveview.andros.dev . Canonical invited me to give a talk on HTML over WebSockets at the Ubuntu Summit 2026. I'll check my schedule. --- 2026-08-25 --- I started a new article about BBS and Nostr. --- 2026-08-24 --- I wrote an article summarizing how this year of Org Social, my social network, has gone: https://en.andros.dev/blog/5fcf45a2/a-year-of-org-social-my-social-network/ --- 2026-08-23 --- I decided to release my personal Finger server https://git.andros.dev/andros/little-finger --- 2026-08-22 --- I had an idea this morning: integrate the talk command with an AI API because both transmit character by character (or token by token). I build a bridge between them... and it worked! After that, I wrote a little article about my experience: https://en.andros.dev/blog/09a21bdd/i-turned-unix-talk-from-1983-into-the-interface-for-my-ai/ I like the search integration https://github.com/jonathandeamer/lookit/issues/172#issuecomment-5373383895 and Lookit's ability to navigate between links. So, I added similar features to efinger.el https://git.andros.dev/andros/efinger.el --- 2026-08-21 --- I finished and published the `talk` article. I created `neotalk`, a GUI for `talk` with some improvements like end-to-end encryption and auto-discovery. It was very easy to build with Python. You can check it out here: https://git.andros.dev/andros/neotalk --- 2026-08-20 --- I migrated all my Org Social repositories from GitHub to https://git.andros.dev/org-social . I also updated https://org-social.org/ with the docs page. I replied to some old issues in the GitHub repository. Users can no longer create PRs or issues there as I disabled that option, and I updated the CONTRIBUTING file with instructions on how to collaborate. I fixed a small bug with the Org Social Live preview around profile links. And I started drafting my new article about the `talk` command and IP chats. It's the perfect time to revive this technology thanks to mesh VPNs. --- 2026-08-19 --- The Finger article continues to drive traffic and stayed on top of Hacker News! Finger never had a search engine, so I made one: crossed-fingers. An aggregator that collects .plan files and indexes them for text searching. $ finger help@crossed-fingers.andros.dev And I pinged to Jonathan Deamer, the creator of Lookit; a new Finger client in Go (https://github.com/jonathandeamer/lookit). Maybe he can make use of my work. --- 2026-08-18 --- I finished my draft about the Finger protocol. After the recent GitHub outage, I am moving the last repositories from my GitHub to my Git instance (Forgejo). It is a lot of work because I will need to update some references in PyPI and MELPA. I made my own Finger client for Emacs. The default one, finger, had too many limitations. https://git.andros.dev/andros/efinger.el --- 2026-08-17 --- Set up my own fingerd in Python to go along with an article about the Finger protocol. I'm still researching Finger; there's a lot of scattered information. However I have a good draft. Today the patch with the Spanish translation of the Org Mode website, where I've been working for almost 8 months with translator Laura M., has been accepted. I've announced the achievement on my social media.