I work at a company called Nylas, which deals with email, calendars and contacts. When I read about Decker (I used HyperCard eons ago) I instantly thought about making some sort of integration between them.

I simply used the Nylas Ruby SDK to fetch contacts in my address book, grab the profile picture, download it, resize it and change its format using ImageMagic and then call a little Lil script via Lilt to make them into an encoded string. Then I simply generate the source code for a .deck file, so that it can be opened with Decker. 

Here are some screenshots:

My idea is to release a blog post, a live stream and a code sample (Will add all links on this thread) as I want to help Decker get more exposure and of course, do my job at the same time 😅

And nope...I don't personally know Hulk...and that's not his personal or work email 🥲

The livestream is tomorrow 😄  How to build an agenda using Decker and Ruby | Coding with Nylas

https://www.youtube.com/live/xDXy-v54pTM?feature=share 

here LinkedIn just in case 😉 

https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:7008554541847629824/

Neat! I enjoyed watching the livestream.

Decker's ".deck" file format is very simple and easy to generate directly, but Lilt can also programmatically manipulate decks!

Imagine we had an API endpoint that lets anyone fetch address book data as JSON like so:

[
  {
    "name":"alice",
    "email":"alice@alice-rules.com",
    "photo":"https://alice-rules.com/photo.png"
  },
  {
    "name":"jane",
    "email":"jane@janeswebzone.pizza",
    "photo":"https://janeswebzone.pizza/about/jane.png"
  }
]

Additionally, imagine we've already created a ".deck" template, with a card named "entry" that has a number of fields we wish to fill out and a canvas named "photo" for the person's thumbnail image.

Using Lil in concert with the curl and imagemagick commandline utilities, we could do something like the following: