A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by tacticiankerala » Thu, May 07, 2015, 8:46 AM UTC

A command-line weather app built using Elixir
github.com

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by davidw » Thu, May 07, 2015, 10:22 AM UTC

If you like the ascii characters like that, you might also enjoy figlet: http://www.figlet.org/

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by bshimmin » Thu, May 07, 2015, 10:40 AM UTC

davidw wrote: post #2

If you like the ascii characters like that, you might also enjoy figlet: http://www.figlet.org/

You beat me to it, so I'll just add that figlet in combination with the inestimable cowsay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay) produces excellent results.

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by renekooi » Thu, May 07, 2015, 10:43 AM UTC

Another ASCII art weather (forecast) utility, but in Go: https://github.com/schachmat/wego

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by jalada » Thu, May 07, 2015, 10:55 AM UTC

Interesting describing ASCII art as 'beautiful'. You can tell this isn't Designer News :P

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Post by nodata » Thu, May 07, 2015, 11:07 AM UTC

It's nice, but it's not beautiful. Let's stop calling everything beautiful.

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by baldfat » Thu, May 07, 2015, 11:09 AM UTC

I have used weather an old command line utility for years.

http://fungi.yuggoth.org/weather/

Pretty cool to track the temperature with your own home temperature.

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by baldfat » Thu, May 07, 2015, 11:13 AM UTC

jalada wrote: post #5

Interesting describing ASCII art as 'beautiful'. You can tell this isn't Designer News :P

I son't know but I love ncurses software and find the actual UI "beautiful since it gets me the information quickly and quickly lets me get things done.

I find my wee-chat with 256 color urxvt with Source Code Pro font in Light Solarized to be the best looking IRC client ever :)

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by flaie » Thu, May 07, 2015, 11:15 AM UTC

renekooi wrote: post #4

Another ASCII art weather (forecast) utility, but in Go: https://github.com/schachmat/wego

This is much much better. Closer to "beautiful" than the one featured here.

Re: A command-line weather app built using Elixir

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Post by djm_ » Thu, May 07, 2015, 11:33 AM UTC

renekooi wrote: post #4

Another ASCII art weather (forecast) utility, but in Go: https://github.com/schachmat/wego

Can anyone explain why a dependency of this app is a "working Go environment"? I thought one of golang's selling points was the fact that it created a simple binary.

As far as I can tell, the Go environment is simply being used as a cheap installer, is that correct?