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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 :)
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…
So it certainly could be done. And I actually looked into this a few years ago, but it wasn't trivial enough to make it worth the time back then.
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....
Way better than the other "weather apps for the terminal" I've seen on HN.
It gets me the information for the forecast and current conditions quickly and painlessly. I have used it for years. I much rather have the NOAA forecast and current conditions to anything else.
This would compliment weather for me.
On another note, was it really necessary to add the bit about the NSA? Hasn't that been played to death now?
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....
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Haskell combinators for ALL THE THINGS :)
Get me a Haskell shell as usable as bash, and I'm down!
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…
I know very little about this space, but when you suggest screen scraping WU, are you implying that they have no API or XML feed or some kind of open feed of their data ?
That's disappointing. I always assumed they did ...