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Owning my own data, part 1: Integrating a self-hosted calendar solution
The first part of what I hope to be an ongoing series about repatriating and owning my own data and tech. In this post, I describe how I integrated my own self-
The standards are a holdover from two computing generations ago, the frontend ecosystem is a mess of rent-seeking monthly subscription mobile apps with dubious features, and the user experience for most systems is pretty much terrible. The sad thing is that in the entire space there’s really two good products: Google Calendar has basically captured the market for diary entries, and Facebook Events would be an admirable tool if it wasn’t attached to a company and service fuelled with undistilled demon blood. Note how I make sure that certain kinds of events (e.g. doctor appointments) are marked private and serialized to a separate file in my work calendar.
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