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Sam Benson
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5mo ago
Why Google Calendar Sometimes Ignores ICS Updates (and What Developers Can Do About It)
... Microsoft Graph Workarounds for SEQUENCE and RECURRENCE edge cases Testing infrastructure for every update scenario Many teams try this and eventually realise it becomes its own infrastructure project. If you want to avoid building that system yourself,
Synara
handles the cross vendor differences automatically: https://
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Sam Benson
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6mo ago
Getting Synara ready for launch & solving the last hard problems before we ship
... everyone, here's a quick update on
Synara
, my API for delivering calendar invites that don t break across Google, Outlook, Apple, and ICS. We re finally getting close to launch, and I wanted to share where things stand and what s left. Where we're at Over the last few weeks, I ve been tightening the fundamentals: Google Calendar sync is done Real two-way updates, no hacks, no scraping, no unofficial endpoints. Proper conflict handling + clean ACE envelopes ... ... Microsoft is next Graph is a minefield of inconsistent behaviours depending on account type, delegated
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p/synara
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Sam Benson
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6mo ago
ICS isn’t the only problem - vendor APIs are the real mess. That’s why I’m building Synara.
... None of this is theoretical. I hit every single one of these while building an event system last month. The calendar layer becomes a pile of vendor-specific logic that you end up maintaining forever. So I built
Synara
to remove all of that. Instead of forcing developers to juggle three (incompatible) ecosystems,
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p/synara
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Sam Benson
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6mo ago
ICS Is 25 Years Old. Here’s Why I Built Synara to Replace It for Developers
... with this long enough, I realised the real issue isn t how we send events. It s the format underneath everything. So I built ACE , a modern JSON event envelope for JSCalendar, designed to remove ICS ambiguity entirely. And
Synara
is the service layer on top of it: a clean, predictable event and invite API that keeps Google and Outlook in sync without hacks.
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