Top Stories: October Apple Event?, New Hardware Leaks, and More
The calendar has flipped over to October, but that doesn’t mean Apple is done with product launches for 2025. We’re still expecting updates to several product lines, and Apple has a history of making announcements in October so we’ll be keeping a lookout for news.

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Several of those upcoming products have already leaked thanks to Russian YouTuber … ⌘ Read more

WA’s public holidays may be changed to match east coast, premier says
Western Australians could soon see a realignment of public holidays to coincide with the east coast and have an additional public holiday added to the calendar as soon as next year, WA Premier Roger Cook says. ⌘ Read more

Hundreds gather in Perth for Eid al-Adha celebrations with prayer, food and reflection
Thousands of Muslims across Perth and Western Australia are coming together to celebrate the start of one of the biggest holidays on the Islamic calendar. ⌘ Read more

Eid al-Adha falls on a Friday this year. It could mean a lot of barbecues on the weekend
One of the biggest holidays on the Islamic calendar is happening on Friday. Here’s how it’s different to a feasting day with a similar name structure. ⌘ Read more

Apple Calendar App Revamp Confirmed by Job Posting
A new Apple job listing has provided more evidence that the company is working on a major overhaul of its Calendar app.

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A senior software engineer position for “Calendar Experience,” [spotted](https://www.macworld.com/article/2791509/apple-job-posting-confirms-calendar-rev … ⌘ Read more

The end of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference
On the 50th anniversary of the USENIX organization, its flagship Annual
Technical Conference (ATC) is coming\
to an end.

For the past two decades, as more USENIX conferences have joined
the USENIX calendar by focusing on specific topics that grew out of
ATC itself, attendance at ATC has steadily decreased to the point
where there is no longer a critical mass of researchers and
p … ⌘ Read more

I do think integrating things like Salty.im might actually be a good idea. I can also see a future where we integrate other things like todo.txt and calendar.txt. I’d even love to see decentralised forms of “plain text” voting too.

Yeah. It’s mostly a parser at the moment. But I have extended the calendar.txt to include todo.txt and a repeat syntax to generate future occurances of events and todos.

ah! those german calendars. Somehow I was thinking of something like mine, with spaces to write inside each day.

I worked for a german company and they gave away these calendars to our clients and team every year, but the model you can hang on the wall. Memory unlocked!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ah, yes, a calendar that shows the past $x months is great! I have this as a widget in my bar:

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Before that I also used something like cal. It works, but it’s a bit cumbersome.

@eapl.me@eapl.me @bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Not including a photo was a stupid move, sorry. There you go:

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This particular one is 95mm wide and 185mm high. Fairly compact.

I can only use it figure out distances to other dates and to do some basic calendar math. I’m not able to actually schedule anything. But I grew up with a month calendar like you have there where all appointments of the entire family was recorded.

By far most of my paper use is drawing random stuff on scratch paper during meetings. :-D

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do you mind sharing a picture ?

I can’t find something similar here, but my wife gave this one last year, and I’ve been using it a bit. I’d say it’s useful as you’ve shared.

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We also have a shared calendar in the kitchen for family events, and it’s working great.

I got a small desk calendar as advertising gift. It shows three months at once. I’m using this thing since the beginning of this year and I have to say that it turned out to be super useful. I’m happily surprised.

It sits on my desk next to my rightmost monitor. I’ve set it up so that I can see the last, current and next months. Each morning, I advance the “today window” or whatever its proper name is. This gives me a sense of what date we have today and which I will have forgotten half a minute later already. At most. However, it’s easily at hand by turning my head just a few degrees.

With the last month still showing, I had several occasions so far where a date in the past popped up in a meeting. I could easily tell when something happened, how long ago that was. Or how many days or weeks are left until we have to deliver something, etc.

In hindsight, this is absolutely no surprise at all. But I still find it fascinating. I’m now actually wondering why I never had something like that before. How could I live without that thing? Sure, I pulled up a calendar on my computer, ncal -w3 or so. But I always hated the inverted ncal output, necessary for showing week numbers, though. Having a paper calander right next to my screen at all times is sooooo much more handy.

So, do yourself a favor and think about whether such a desk calendar might be useful to you.

The only annoying thing is that the “today window” moves too easily. It slips down by its own. I reckon it wants me to regularly interact with it, so that I memorize the current date.

calendar.txt: Keep your calendar in a plain text file
https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/
It’s a lot of fun to have a calendar system.

Apple Seemingly Working on New ‘Invites’ App to Manage Events
Apple could be developing a new app that’s designed to help users organize meetings and in-person events, if code discovered in the latest iOS 18.3 beta is anything to go by.

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References in iOS 18.3 beta 2 spotted by 9to5Mac suggest the app is called “Invites,” and it will show users a list of … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: 🍾 Happy Belated Calendar-Changing Day, 2025 🎆 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/01/05/hny2025.html #holiday #newyear #publicdomain

2024 was a funny year: The year begins and ends with calendar week 1:

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The one in January being 2024-W01 and the one in December 2025-W01.

🤓

(Hmmm, my printed LaTeX calendar using tikz-kalender gets it wrong or uses different week definitions. It shows next week as 53. 🤔)

https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/ keep your calendar in a simple text file. I love the idea #cli

Top Stories: iOS 18 Beta Features, Apple Intelligence for Vision Pro, and More
With the calendar flipping over to July, public betas of iOS 18 and related operating system updates are right around the corner, so we’re continuing to take a look at what changes and features users can expect to see.

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Other Apple news and rumors this week included several iconic devices being added to Apple’s list of “vintage” products, a … ⌘ Read more

Add Corporate Earnings Reports to Your Calendar on Mac, iPhone, iPad via Stocks App
The Stocks app for iPhone, Mac, and iPad, now offers a super convenient way of knowing when a companies upcoming earnings reports will be, and, even better for you earnings season enthusiasts, you can add those earnings report dates directly to your calendar immediately from the Stocks app. Because who doesn’t love listening in on … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024 … ⌘ Read more

iOS 15.8.1 & iPadOS 15.8.1 Security Updates Released for Old iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
Apple has released security updates to old model iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices running iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. Yes, you read that correctly and you do not need to check your calendar (or your eyes), iOS 15.8.1 and iPadOS 15.8.1 are new releases of system software for old hardware. iOS 15.8.1 and iPadOS … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/01/23/ios-15-8-1 … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: 🍾 Happy Belated Calendar-Changing Day, 2024 🎆 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/01/07/hny2024.html #holiday #newyear

First task of 2024: renew an expired cert. I like that it’s calendar-themed.

Happy advents calendar month to everyone!

Get a Personal Update from Siri on iPhone, iPad, Mac
Siri has a neat largely unknown feature called Personal Update, that, when requested, will give you a summary of information from various apps that you may find useful. Specifically, Personal Update will give you the weather forecast for the day, whatever your calendar events that day are, your reminders, an travel time estimate to locations … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/10/11/get-a-personal-update-from-siri-on-iphone-ip … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: 🍾 Happy Calendar-Changing Day, 2023 🎆 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/01/hny2023.html #holiday #newyear

Retiring My Fiat Donation Portal
I’ve decided to retire my fiat donation portal at donate.lukesmith.xyz, where people could donate to me via debit and credit cards.
This will happen by the end of this calendar year.

It’s more in keeping with my principles of free software, self-ownership and everything else to only allow cryptocurrency donations.
This also is a subtle nudge to people who want to donate in streams to get into Bitcoin and Monero, as opposed to using fiat o … ⌘ Read more

To infinity and beyond: enabling the future of GitHub’s REST API with API versioning
We’re introducing calendar-based versioning for our REST API, so we can keep evolving our API, whilst still giving integrators a smooth migration path and plenty of time to update their integrations. ⌘ Read more

Huh… Nope.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 407
Content-Type: text/calendar
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Expose-Headers: ETag
Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=()
Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'; sandbox
Referrer-Policy: same-origin
Vary: Authorization


BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0;2.0
PRODID:SandCal
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20220822T180903Z
UID:bb63bfbd-623e-4805-b11b-3181d96375e6
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220827T000000
CREATED:20220822T180903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220822T180903Z
LOCATION:https://meet.jit.si/Yarn.social
SUMMARY:Yarn Call
RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220827T010000
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

@prologic@twtxt.net odd is it maybe a wrong mime type thing? Should be text/calendar. Some http servers can mistakenly mark them application/octet-stream

On the blog: 🍾 Happy Calendar-Changing Day (Belated), 2021 🎆 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/01/03/hny2021.html #holiday #newyear

Importera Google Calendar till Emacs Calendar ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/kalender.html

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Small-D date Night https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/18/date.html #techtips #programming #shell #date #gnu #linux #calendar

Calendar house - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_house

Arvelie Calendar | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/arvelie

The Etymology of ‘Sabbath’ - Calendars in Antiquity and the Middle Ages UCL Calendars in Antiquity and the Middle Ages http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/calendars-ancient-medieval-project/2015/07/15/the-etymology-of-sabbath/

Google, the most dangerous monopoly ever
I use almost all Google services ranging from search engine, over Gmail, Calendar, Android and Google Voice all the way to Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics. If you combine all that data, I think that Google may know me better then I know my self, and that is starting to make me nerves. Don’t get […] ⌘ Read more