SoFlo Kiddo

What It Does

I'm a stay-at-home dad and next week my kids have no camp, no daycare, no nothing. I pulled together a few dozen sources of activities for kids and aggregated them into one place so I can have lots of choices every day without needing to remember or visit individual websites.

How it works

Pretty simple AI-assisted implementation for a proof of concept. We worked together to curate a list of data sources, some were easily parseable feeds, others were PNG calendars that needed to be OCR'd. There's markdown to define the updating process and for now we didn't bother with a proper database, just crawl the date sources, aggregate content, assemble static HTML and rsync to the server.

Built with

• Very unfancy, python, a bunch of markdown and json files, rsync to the server. No need to complicate yet, for now just proving the concept and this month will confirm between me and a few friends how useful it is. About 25 sources live in the feed now, some more easily parsed than others, some headless browsing with Playwright, clever use of curl, etc.