Where does the weather data come from?
National Weather Service. https://api.weather.gov/alerts/active?point={lat},{lon}
Canada: https://dd.weather.gc.ca/alerts/cap/{province}/atom.xml
Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
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Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#92I see that you mentioned no images, but I feel that images would make it easier for quickly locating information. You can probably use some basic svg files to keep the file size small. E.g. a simple design of a building shaking to represent an earthquake. Right now, I am seeing a flood of text that I have to carefully read. I don't think emoji's would help, because they can be more subject to interpretation. And the…
Thank you. Images would increase the page size. Intent is to keep this accessible on slow/overloaded connections.
Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#93I appreciate the idea, but as others have mentioned it seems like for something like this to be useful it really needs to be well thought out and tolerant to extreme spikes in traffic. I might be wrong here but it looked like the responses from the server are chunked, which I _think_ precludes the use of a highly optimized cache response e.g. from a CDN. Assuming that's true (very open to correction of course!) I won…
The web app has a 5-minute cache on dynamic content - which balances info freshness with performance. The architecture supports the ultra-light, fast-loading requirements by design.
Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#94I've been working on a similar idea for travelers, https://travelsafetydata.com/ It's pulling the travel advisories from US/CA/UK/IE/AU/NZ and aggregating the results/information to help you understand the risks of different countries. It also pulls from other sources for basic country info/risks (eg. women, lgbtq). Yours is way lighter weight and focused, very cool!
Lol what the heck? Both UK and France are getting yellow flags because of terrorism. Seems absurd to me but perhaps it's good to get multiple viewpoints.
This is very common across multiple sources.
Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#95I see that you mentioned no images, but I feel that images would make it easier for quickly locating information. You can probably use some basic svg files to keep the file size small. E.g. a simple design of a building shaking to represent an earthquake. Right now, I am seeing a flood of text that I have to carefully read. I don't think emoji's would help, because they can be more subject to interpretation. And the…
Thank you. Images would increase the page size. Intent is to keep this accessible on slow/overloaded connections.
I think what he is saying is adding simple svg icons, not images.
For instance this one
https://www.svgrepo.com/svg/308550/earthquake-damage-earthqu... is 700 bytes, and it can most likely be simplified and compressed.
(you can also lazy load them so they don't delay the content)
Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#96I've been working on a similar idea for travelers, https://travelsafetydata.com/ It's pulling the travel advisories from US/CA/UK/IE/AU/NZ and aggregating the results/information to help you understand the risks of different countries. It also pulls from other sources for basic country info/risks (eg. women, lgbtq). Yours is way lighter weight and focused, very cool!
https://travelsafetydata.com/country/SE How are these "scams & fraud"? > Make sure your health insurance plan provides coverage overseas. Most care providers overseas only accept credit card payments. See our webpage for more information on insurance overseas. Visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more information on the type of insurance you should consider before you travel overseas. > Gas s…
Yeah that scraper is... not fully ready yet, why I put BETA label on it.
Room for improvement. Thanks :)
Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#97I've been working on a similar idea for travelers, https://travelsafetydata.com/ It's pulling the travel advisories from US/CA/UK/IE/AU/NZ and aggregating the results/information to help you understand the risks of different countries. It also pulls from other sources for basic country info/risks (eg. women, lgbtq). Yours is way lighter weight and focused, very cool!
Lol what the heck? Both UK and France are getting yellow flags because of terrorism. Seems absurd to me but perhaps it's good to get multiple viewpoints.
That's why I found this interesting, a variety of sources provides different viewpoints on risk. I may not personally agree, but it does help give many perspectives.
Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#98One of the most unique ideas I've seen. Good to see this is just a 4.4 KB HTML page and does exactly what it says.