Wego: a weather app for the terminal

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Post by cnbuff410 » Thu, May 14, 2015, 2:02 PM UTC

Wego: a weather app for the terminal
github.com

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#2

Post by sjs382 » Thu, May 14, 2015, 2:30 PM UTC

Love it. I starred it, as a reminder to create/contribute new icons, in the future. :)

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Post by Lancey » Thu, May 14, 2015, 3:02 PM UTC

Way better than the other "weather apps for the terminal" I've seen on HN.

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Post by hahamrfunnyguy » Thu, May 14, 2015, 3:29 PM UTC

Nicely done, ASCII art looks great.

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#5

Post by Dav3xor » Thu, May 14, 2015, 3:34 PM UTC

curl http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/PQR/AFDPQR | less

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Post by Touche » Thu, May 14, 2015, 3:35 PM UTC

Why not do some releases? It's one of the advantages of Go that it is easy to release binaries for?

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Post by borkabrak » Thu, May 14, 2015, 3:53 PM UTC

I live on the command line, so I really dig this sort of thing. And this one in particular looks very nice. I'm a fan!

If you're open to bug reports/feature requests:

* The image for clear weather is a bright sun, which is a little odd to see in the 'Night' column

* Many city names are duplicates. How do I know I've got the right one?

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Post by fl0wenol » Thu, May 14, 2015, 3:54 PM UTC

Whenever I see a weather "app" I always think: "This is really a weather display utility" and then wonder about the quality / longevity of the service it depends on and how the information is provided.

What would interest me is an implementation that allows you to plug in different weather backends, so that having an API key to worldweatheronline, or screen-scraping weather underground, or building a bridge to your serial-port connected weather station all can target the same interface; to provide current conditions/historical conditions, a forecast, etc.

Are there standards for this, or is it mostly ad-hoc, the whim of the sites or commercial services which aggregate information and provide forecasts?

Re: Wego: a weather app for the terminal

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Post by borkabrak » Thu, May 14, 2015, 3:55 PM UTC

Dav3xor wrote: post #5

curl http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/PQR/AFDPQR | less

Efficient, but less flexible. And much more difficult to read.

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Post by travjones » Thu, May 14, 2015, 4:00 PM UTC

Maybe we would all do well by closing our terminals, taking a break, and going outside to see what the weather is really like.