Weather agenda

I like my paper calendar for the time being, I can write in events and its in a persistent spot that I know to check. I have a harder time getting my bearings in digital tools, but the ability to have things automatically show up when needed is something I want to mash together with my paper calendar. I don’t use my kindle paperwhite anymore, it was great for commuting, and wanted to put some new use to it. The initial idea was to show the weather and anything else I may need could be automatically shown as needed, think packages, agenda etc. I have for the time being settled on just showing my org mode agenda and a weather forecast.

This was initially a jekyll project via docker compose <-> jenkins but this proved to be difficult to do considering the permissions of all involved. This result is also way faster and has a much smaller file footprint. Jekyll fits my needs for this site, but for any personal project that’s more complex I think GO+HTMX is a clear winner for me.

I have opted to run a systemd service with the go webserver executable and run a systemd timer(cron is deprecated in NixOS) to run an emacs command to update my agenda. This is exposed to my local network which is where my kindle accesses it. I considered putting it on the internet and putting a password on it but I don’t plan to use this out of my local network.

Here is a nixos snippet for what I used to up the process:

      systemd.timers."agenda" = {
		wantedBy = [ "timers.target" ];
		timerConfig = {
			OnBootSec = "5m";
			OnUnitActiveSec = "5m";
			Unit = "agenda.service";
		};
	};

	systemd.services."agenda" = {
		path = with pkgs; [ emacs git];
		script = ''
			emacs -l /home/youruser/.emacs -batch  -eval '(org-batch-agenda "a" org-agenda-span (quote day))' > /your/webserver/directory/agenda.txt
			'';
		serviceConfig = {
			Type = "oneshot";
			User = "root";
		};
	};

	systemd.services.kindlego = {
		enable = true;
		wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
		after = [ "network.target" ];
		serviceConfig = {
			WorkingDirectory = "/your/webserver/directory/";
			User = "your_username";
			ExecStart = "/your/webserver/directory/binary";
		};
	};

The webserver responds on index to serve the main page, and replaces a div containing the agenda with an htmx swap periodically.

It’s very simple at the moment but because of how it is setup it is a fully fledged hypermedia document, meaning I can simply add new services as routes, and display them as a part of the original document.

• Package tracking
  • text alerts are fine
• Sync Google Calendar
  • helpful but I don’t use google calendar for much
• Interactive agenda
  • should be doable via emacs eval and htmx -> go server
• Wall mounted holder
  • ceramic or plastic 3d printed is what I am considering