ASCII Art Weather

Post by Tiksi » Thu, Apr 14, 2016, 11:50 PM UTC

gitaarik wrote: post #86

Made a small bash function for it. You can give the city as an argument and otherwise defaults to the env var $WEATHER_CITY and if that's not set, won't provide any city to the site which will result in the site guessing your location. weather() { if [ "$1" ] ; then city=$1 else city=$WEATHER_CITY fi curl http://wttr.in/$city }

  weather()
  {
    curl http://wttr.in/${1-$WEATHER_CITY}
  }

Post by tux » Fri, Apr 15, 2016, 4:47 AM UTC

fabiendem wrote: post #11

Nice! :) alias weather="wget -O - http://wttr.in/london -q"

Post by dredmorbius » Fri, Apr 15, 2016, 12:09 PM UTC

mediumdeviation wrote: post #80

torgoguys wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The site is also unusable on mobile, because ASCII art unlike proper semantic HTML is not easily rescalable by the browser. And it's inaccessible by users relying on screen readers, ironically because of all the ASCII cruft. As web developers, we're used to "everyone" being the audience, but that's not the case here. As a stylized visual representation of the weather, it's fine. I dig it. Making sure something is ac…

Oh, I agree that this is really cool in terms of aesthetics. I'm pointing out that the grandparent's comment about this being minimalistic, and comparing it to real weather apps as being absurd. If you're building a toy project aimed solely at programmers on desktop, there's a lot of things you don't have to care about. Some of those things are exactly the 'bloat' the grandparent has been complaining about.