Today I’m going to sing praise to the iCalendar format. With a simple text-based format, you can directly integrate into people’s calendar programs. Why go through all the bother and fuss of using Facebook or Meetup, when a static ics file on a static server can let everyone know the time and place. Ah, if only everything could be this easy.

The new CoffeeOutside bot has finally managed to successfully call its first location. Sure, the rewrite took learning 2 programming languages and several hours of my life that I’ll never get back. But the satisfaction of when it finally worked made it worth it.