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Author here. This was a fun little side project. It's a ruby Sinatra app that parses events from the unstructured JPL Space Calendar page and publishes the calendar in JSON and iCalendar formats.

https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/

https://jpl.mcginnis.io/space_calendar.json

https://jpl.mcginnis.io/space_calendar.ics

This was my first time using Digital Ocean to host a little dockerized side-project. So far, my experience has been great.

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This is cool. I already added the iCalendar. Got two comet notifications just this morning. If only I wasn’t trapped in a big city I might be able to make more of it.

I often miss out on events for want of being out of the loop, so this is a start.

I’m also a fan of modern Digital Ocean, and my experience has been the same— I think it depends on the type of project but it’s definitely been useful and well-priced.

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