Oops
Well, some life stuff came up that was more pressing than daily blogging. So, ostensibly, this was a failure. That’s too bad, since the point was kind of to see if I could do something and not fail.
On the flip side, I figured out more important things in my personal life, which, if everything else doesn’t crash and burn around me, should help with the original goal of achieving things and getting back into the groove of life.
Actual Thing
I made a small project to get the url of the next event for a Meetup meetup. All you do is give it a Meetup group name and it’ll give you the url of the next meetup, or redirect there. That’s it - easy peasy. You can see it at comingup.events. Source on GitHub.
The reason I wanted it is because, as far as I can tell, Meetup
doesn’t provide a permalink for the next event for a group, like
https://meetup.com/some-group/events/next. This caused an
issue for me, indirectly, because I was trying to RSVP to a local Code and Coffee event, but the
link I had (from Calagator) was
old, and I didn’t realize it. Whoever added the link probably copied
and pasted the details from an old event, which won’t work. This
little project fixes that.
I wrote it with Phoenix, but it’s hard to even say that since it’s really a single function. There are a few things I could add, but we’ll see. Feel free to use it. It uses an ephemeral cache, and I’m not doing any telemetry or anything, so it’s fairly anonymous to use.
Next
This will be the last in this series. I’m keeping up the existing ones for posterity, even though I don’t think anyone’s even seen them and I could wipe the slate clean and save the embarrassment. I don’t think that’ll really matter anyway.