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Frieden: my personal availability calendar | thesephist.com

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Today, I added another small item to my growing arsenal of software tools to make my day-to-day work smoother. I built and launched Frieden, my personal, public read-only availability calendar. You can see it running at free.linus.zone. It pulls my calendar data in real time from my actual personal and work calendars, and aggregates my schedule into a single public view. It looks like this: There are services out there that allow strangers to schedule meetings with me from a limited set of time slots, like Uncalendar or Calendly. I didn’t want those – I want to have full control of who gets to add events on my calendar where, so I still want the booking process to be manual. But when I’m scheduling things onto my calendar, I waste a lot of back-and-forths and everyone’s time finding a time slot that’s open for everyone, and serializing the empty slots in my own calendars to others through email and text. So Frieden is designed to alleviate that small pain point. Instead of me texting a

Today, I added another small item to my growing arsenal of software tools to make my day-to-day work smoother. I built and launched Frieden , my personal, public read-only availability calendar. You can see it running at free.linus.zone . It pulls my calendar data in real time from my actual personal and work calendars, and aggregates my schedule into a single public view. It looks like this: There are services out there that allow strangers to schedule meetings with me from a limited set of time slots, like Uncalendar or Calendly. I didn't want those - I want to have full control of who gets

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