Jon Udell judell

Smoother upstream syncs for B-Square-Bulletin/community-calendar

Five commits just landed upstream that reduce merge friction for forks. Here's what to do and why.

What changed upstream

report.json and xmlui/version.txt are no longer tracked. These auto-generated files always diverge across forks, causing pointless merge conflicts.
xmlui/config.local.js is no longer tracked. It was already gitignored but still in the repo from an earlier commit. A config.local.js.example template is now shipped instead.

Event Rewriting for WFHB

WFHB needs to edit certain events as they flow from the community-calendar database to the iframed viewer. The approach: add an eventOverrides object to the existing excluded.json file that WFHB already manages in GitHub. The community-calendar viewer already fetches this file via the ?exclude= query param; it just needs to apply overrides in addition to exclusions.

Two repos are involved:

community-calendar (Jon) — the shared viewer that any city can iframe
wfhb (Chuck) — the WFHB-specific moderator UI

Part 1: community-calendar viewer (Jon)

The published blog at blog.xmlui.org is a standalone XMLUI app (xmlui-blog), separate from the main website. Its source lived in blog/src/ but has been removed from the working tree — only blog/dist/ remains.

The key file was blog/src/config.ts, which contains:

A hardcoded blogPosts array listing every post's metadata (title, slug, description, author, date, image, tags, draft).
That array is passed to the XMLUI runtime via appGlobals.blog.posts.
Blog markdown files are loaded from blog/public/blog/*.md via Vite glob import.
The Main.xmlui for the blog app used hardcoded Page routes with index-based references (posts[0], posts[1], etc.).

Adding a new post to the published blog requires:

Plan: Stop Committing Generated ICS/JSON Files to the Repo

Current State

CI workflow commits cities/*/events.json, cities.json, and version.txt to git after every build
Individual .ics files from scrapers/feeds are also committed
The app does not serve these files to users — it queries Supabase directly
The load-events edge function fetches events.json from raw.githubusercontent.com to upsert into Supabase
cities.json and version.txt ARE used by the frontend at load time (via GitHub Pages)

When “RSVP Today” Stops Making Sense

I received this Meetup email today and could not make sense of it.

	<!--
	B Square Bulletin — community calendar embed fix

	Problem: the current embed shows two scrollbars (page + iframe). The iframe
	has a fixed 1800px height with scrolling="yes", so when the event list is
	taller than 1800px it gets its own scrollbar inside the page's scrollbar,
	and when it's shorter you see a big gap.

	Fix: opt the iframe into auto-height mode (?autoheight=true), turn off its
	scrollbar, start it at height:0, and add a tiny postMessage listener that

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	# verify_edge_functions.sh — compare deployed edge function source against repo
	#
	# Usage:
	# export SUPABASE_ACCESS_TOKEN=sbp_... # from supabase.com/dashboard/account/tokens
	# export SUPABASE_PROJECT_REF=your_project_ref
	# bash verify_edge_functions.sh
	#
	# Requires: curl, diff, jq
	# Run from the root of your community-calendar repo clone.

	-- Verify that a fork's Supabase database has all required objects.
	-- Paste this into the Supabase SQL Editor and run it.
	--
	-- Each check returns '✅ OK' or '❌ MISSING' with the fix.
	--
	-- Auto-generated from DDL files on 2026-04-24.
	-- Regenerate: python scripts/generate_verify_sql.py

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