What it does
Get a curated read on Bay Area arts, comedy, live music, and workshops, scored by your own preferences instead of a generic chronological feed.
Currently
Live at /bay-area-events. It scrapes several local sources on a daily cron, geocodes venues for a clustered map, and re-ranks the browse list against per-visitor preferences stored in your browser. No account needed. A seven-region picker lets you scope to all of the Bay Area or a single sub-region. Built into the k8mak.com site on Supabase.
Recently shipped
- Jun 15, 2026Shipped a UX backlog: a how-this-works explainer, a seven-region picker, a personalization teaser that deep-links into Browse, and mobile category-pill scrolling.
- Jun 14, 2026Fixed the scrapers after date-hardening exposed stale selectors: funcheap via JSON-LD, dothebay via schema.org microdata, and SJPL via the library gateway API.
- Jun 13, 2026Added per-visitor preferences, a cached geocoding map layer, an admin scraper-health page, and date-parse hardening.
- Jun 10, 2026Shipped the public app, ported from a standalone repo onto the site on Supabase, seeded with real events.
How it's built
How I built it
I wanted a single place to see what is happening in the South Bay that actually pays attention to what I like, so I built one and made it public. It pulls from several local sources every day, puts venues on a map, and quietly re-ranks everything against the preferences you set, all stored in your browser with no account. The part that taught me the most was the plumbing nobody sees: when I hardened the date parsing, I discovered that several scrapers had only ever appeared to work because undated events defaulted to today, so I had to rebuild them against each site's real markup. This is the public, decoupled version, distinct from the private couples edition I keep inside our household hub.