My Emacs configuration (Mastodon)

20 Aug 2026 emacs it Table of Contents Preamble Mastodon.el overview Mastodon.el common configuration Hacking the Mastodon.el TL icons Use Nerd Icons for toots stats Use Nerd Icons to show successful completion of actions Increasing the default HTTP timeout This blog post is a part of the series of posts about my Emacs configuration. Previous posts: My Emacs configuration (common parts) Why and how I ditched use-package? My Emacs configuration (Dired) Preamble At one bad day the update of Mastodon Web UI came into the instance where I have an account. While I was using this web interface without a big problems for some months — it was kinda laggy, but what I could expect from the modern web page full of JS (?) — this update brings a lot of lags. Especially in the window to enter the alt-text for images. Each my keypress was transformed to a letter on the screen with a serious lag, at near a second. Obviously, it was a pain to write alt-texts this way. At the same time, one of mine…