Emacs 26.1 is out! There's a slew of new features, most exciting (to me) is the new elisp thread support! https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-05/msg00765.html
There's a good comment from HN on the zen of Emacs too.
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nREPL is a really interesting protocol for developer tools. It's extensible, but one of the basic operations is eval().
If your nREPL server doesn't support a given operation, you can just send an eval request to achieve the same result!
Difftastic 0.69 is out! This is a pretty big release:
* Semantically insignificant commas are now ignored
* Difftastic now respects .gitattributes
* Added assembly support and improved 13 other languages
Today I learnt about "bypass charging", a phone feature where it can run directly off the mains without using the battery at all. No battery charging, less heat, less battery wear. Nifty.

