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Automating Google Calendar Screenshots with Playwright, rclone, and systemd

I wanted a daily visual record of my Google Calendar: not a list of events exported through an API, but an image of the calendar as it looked on a given day.

  • Python and Playwright automate Google Calendar screenshots daily
  • rclone uploads PNG files to Google Drive for storage
  • systemd schedules the workflow on Ubuntu

What we learned building two fail-closed verification tools for the agent economy

ERC-8004 gives AI agents an on-chain identity, but identity is not trust. A few recent posts here made that point well, including one showing that a naive average of reputation scores can crown the…

  • Never claim clean without verifying the data source
  • Tools reported invalid payments when checks were incomplete
  • Authors emphasized testing verification processes

The text is arranged around a circle, recreated with Python and fontTools

The circular text looks like a drawing trick, but it is a regular text layout with one difference: instead of moving on a straight baseline, each letter moves along an arc and rotates outwards.

  • Teks lingkaran ditulis dengan Python dan fontTools.
  • Jarak antar huruf dan rata tengah diukur secara spesifik.
  • Font Source Sans 3 digunakan, tetapi Arial Bold digunakan untuk teks besar.

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