Dilly-Dally
A single-page picker for what to do next. Pick any date (today or later), a typed or detected location, mood, group size, and budget. It uses that day’s weather, then shows three sections that load on their own, in this order:
- Places of interest — nearby places, with a count and “Show more”. Museums, parks, libraries, and attractions rank above restaurants and bars (those stay on the list, underneath). The first five mix categories. The foodie mood puts food and drink back on top.
- Date night ideas — tagged ideas (mood, indoor or outdoor, cost, and group size), a Shuffle button, and a directions link to the nearest matching real place.
- Happening on that date — public holidays from Nager.Date (for example Thanksgiving), plus Find events links for Google, Eventbrite, Meetup, AllEvents, Ticketmaster, and Bandsintown (US), filled in with the date and mood. Markets open that day is built from OpenStreetMap marketplaces and farmers markets, using a small built-in opening-hours parser (no extra library). It shows that day’s hours. Hours it can’t read are listed under “Hours unverified”; closed markets are only counted. Markets count as free and family-friendly, and Surprise me can pick one. On a public holiday, markets and places that list hours but have no public-holiday rule show “Holiday — hours may differ”. This repository includes
data/free-events.json: 1,336 public events from library and community calendars. After a location is chosen, the app fetches that file about 0.7 seconds later, off the path that draws places, and gives up after 15 seconds. Events inside the radius on the chosen date show a Free badge; five are listed at a time, with Show more for the rest. A multi-day event is listed on every day in its range. A missing or invalid file is ignored. See data/README.md.
Surprise me picks from places, ideas, events, and open markets. The built-in TICKETMASTER_KEY is empty, so the page does not call the Ticketmaster API until a key is saved. A Ticketmaster key setting at the bottom of the events section stores a Consumer Key in this browser only (localStorage). The layout is a phone page: the viewport meta tag is set, and the sections stack in one column.
Weather is from Open-Meteo — a 16-day forecast, or typical conditions from the historical archive after that. Places come from several sources in parallel, merged and de-duplicated, and show up as soon as any source answers: Photon (OpenStreetMap category lookups, 18 second timeout, one jittered retry), Wikipedia GeoSearch (English plus the local language), and Nominatim (bounded search, at most one request per second). Overpass is optional and runs in the background, so it never holds the list up. The search stops after 45 seconds and does not keep an empty or failed result. The location box starts empty — there is no default city — and asks “Where are we headed?” until a place is typed (Enter or Find looks it up) or “Use my location” is tapped. Search uses the Open-Meteo geocoder and falls back to Nominatim. Deal notes are typical patterns — always verify them. See CHANGELOG.md.
Live site: https://avial0900.github.io/Dilly-Dally/ if the repository is renamed to Dilly-Dally, otherwise https://avial0900.github.io/Activity-Picker/.
The whole app is index.html (no build step). It does not use the repository name in any path, so either URL works after GitHub Pages is enabled. Open that HTTPS address in Safari or Chrome. Location, weather, and places need a real https:// page; opening the file directly (file://) blocks those requests on many phones, including iPhone. The free-events feed is data/free-events.json, next to the page.
