Show HN: Building a 'liturgical lightbulb', bringing the Calendar to life

by angrygoaton 1/6/24, 11:57 AMwith 9 comments
by ksenzeeon 1/7/24, 8:08 AM

I love everything about this. Shopping for hardware now. If I get it up and running, I'll submit a PR for the US Episcopal calendar.

This is a bigger and more involved project than I think a lot of people will realize. One of my recent side projects was a Mastodon bot that posts a daily verse from the Episcopal Hymnal 1982 (botsin.space/@hymnal1982), and getting it to reflect the liturgical calendar was a job and a half. (It missed all of Christmas after Christmas Day; have to go debug that.)

by kstrauseron 1/7/24, 7:07 AM

Clever! I love seeing super-niche projects that neatly solve one person’s problem.

by bitwizeon 1/7/24, 7:05 AM

I am not a Christian... but my wife's family are Episcopalians and would appreciate this. I bet I could convince her uncle to build one.

by zerojameson 1/7/24, 5:25 PM

This is delightful!

by wscourgeon 1/7/24, 5:57 AM

TIL: video in README.md works if you simply paste a link into it.