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    1. What email provider do you use?

      ~tech Ask (recommendations)
      I’m currently using ProtonMail, I’ve been with them since Indiegogo. I know calendar’s supposed to come out in beta this month, but I’m honestly fed up with the speed of their development and the...

      I’m currently using ProtonMail, I’ve been with them since Indiegogo. I know calendar’s supposed to come out in beta this month, but I’m honestly fed up with the speed of their development and the quality of apps, and I think it’s too expensive.

      I need custom domain support, and calendar. Nothing fancy.
      Self-hosting email is out of the question in 2019.

      What are you guys using for email these days?

      25 votes

    3. Programming Challenge: Mini Calendar Display

      ~comp Text 420 words
      It has been a while since the last time we did something like a programming challenge, so here's one for ya. The life story of the author before you get to the recipe I've been working on a little...

      It has been a while since the last time we did something like a programming challenge, so here's one for ya.

      The life story of the author before you get to the recipe

      I've been working on a little "today" website, showing what day it is, if it's a significant date for holiday/independence/... reasons, and one of the things I wanted was a small calendar display that showed the full month and days in each week. Like how XFCE's Clock plugin does it.

      So I got to figuring it out and after finishing it up I thought this could be a nice little programming challenge. It has one input (the date) that can be in any of the rows and columns, and it's up to you to figure out all the rest.

      Here's how mine looks in about 250ish lines of TypeScript (TSX technically) and SCSS.

      The Recipe

      Make a mini calendar display that shows all the days of the current month and at least one day of each adjacent month. So for example for May 2023: the 31 days in May, the 30th of April and the 1st of June should at least be visible.

      It can be in any language with any method of rendering; simple text, TUI/GUI toolkit, web-based, raytraced in some game engine, nixie tubes, whatever.

      Bonus Points

      • Highlight the current day name in the first row, if you're including day names.
      • Highlight the current day number, wherever it is.
      • Highlight the current week row, wherever it is.
      • Differentiate the days of current month and the days of the other adjacent months, wherever they are.

      Some Tips

      The week number

      If your programming language of choice doesn't have a built-in way to get the week number, like JavaScript doesn't, this website may have you covered.

      Testing

      Make sure to test multiple different input dates, I thought I was finished with my display until I tried some other dates and noticed that there were still some bugs left to squash.

      Starting

      If you know what the first day in the calendar should be, counting up is as easy as "one two three"!

      Weeks

      If you use 6 weeks in the display, you will always have enough space to fit all the current month's days and the minimum 1 day of the adjacent month's too.

      Showcase

      If at all possible and with at least a few entries I will try to run all the submissions myself and create a little showcase website for it.

      16 votes

    4. eInk calendar display object

      ~creative Text 210 words
      I bought a colour eInk screen last summer and had a bit of fun getting it to talk to my shared Google calendar that runs our house. Recently I finally got around to making a frame for it so it can...

      I bought a colour eInk screen last summer and had a bit of fun getting it to talk to my shared Google calendar that runs our house. Recently I finally got around to making a frame for it so it can sit somewhere prominent and tell us about upcoming events. It's basically just a raspberry pi zero hat, so it's debian underneath. There's some slightly hacky python to make it (a) talk to Google, (b) mung their API output into something useful, which turned out to be HTML which is then "screenshotted" to create a PNG which can be sent to the eInk display. Updating takes about 30 seconds in total, partly because the pi zero is slow and partly because the refresh rate of the screen is in double-digit seconds. Works in full sunlight though, which is nice, and it's a much nicer screen than it looks in photos.

      Screen is this one here. Pi Zero is a pi zero, the frame is flamed oak, the base is beech, the copper is copper. If there are no events in the next week, it shows a random picture instead (and boy, if I thought rendering html was slow on a zero that's nothing on 7-colour dithering a jpg!)

      16 votes