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Wego: a weather app for the terminal

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Re: Wego: a weather app for the terminal

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Post by j_s »

borkabrak wrote: post #7

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?

https://github.com/schachmat/wego/issues

Re: Wego: a weather app for the terminal

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Post by Dav3xor »

borkabrak wrote: post #9
Dav3xor wrote: post #5

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

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

Hehe, more suited to my chaotic (yet very mild) local weather. A pictograph doesn't show the forecaster's confidence in what it portrays.

Re: Wego: a weather app for the terminal

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Post by dethstar »

travjones wrote: post #10

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

Idk, i use this kind of thing before I go out to see if I have to prepare better. "oh look it's getting colder, I better not go in shorts", "oh look it's actually pretty cold despite how sunny it looks"

Re: Wego: a weather app for the terminal

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Post by amk_ »

fl0wenol wrote: post #8

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 s…

http://graphical.weather.gov/xml/

Ex: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.76&lon=-122....

Re: Wego: a weather app for the terminal

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Post by dllthomas »

calebm wrote: post #15

Very nicely done. Terminalize ALL THE THINGS!

Necessary, but not sufficient. A lot of terminal apps are still - to borrow a phrase - captive user interfaces, which don't play much better with others than a GUI. Decompose all the things into individual utilities (or libraries) so they can be reused and recombined!

Re: Wego: a weather app for the terminal

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Post by Arnor »

dllthomas wrote: post #17
calebm wrote: post #15

Very nicely done. Terminalize ALL THE THINGS!

Necessary, but not sufficient. A lot of terminal apps are still - to borrow a phrase - captive user interfaces, which don't play much better with others than a GUI. Decompose all the things into individual utilities (or libraries) so they can be reused and recombined!

Haskell combinators for ALL THE THINGS :)

Re: Wego: a weather app for the terminal

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Post by sergiotapia »

borkabrak wrote: post #7

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?

Be as explicit as possible. For example, `Santa Cruz, Bolivia` not just `Santa Cruz` because there is ambiguity.
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