I Built a `cal` Endpoint Because Windows Still Doesn’t Have One

If you've spent any time on a Linux or macOS terminal, you've probably typed cal at least once. It's one of those tiny little utilities that's almost too simple to matter — until you're on a Windows machine, you need a quick calendar reference, and you realize it's just... not there. CMD doesn't have it. PowerShell doesn't have it. And I'm not about to install some third-party tool just to see what day of the week the 15th falls on. So I built my own, and I'm kind of unreasonably happy about it. The Fix: A cURL-Accessible Calendar Endpoint It lives at rickys.dev/calendar and works exactly the way cal does — except you hit it with cURL instead of running a local command. curl -L rickys.dev/calendar That gives you the current month, plain text, right in your terminal: March 2026 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Today's date is highlighted in bold cyan — same feel as cal on Linux. On Windows it renders cleanly in Wind