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Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

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Re: Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

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Post by markwakeford »

ihuman wrote: post #19
donpdonp wrote: post #2

./ansiweather: line 76: jq: command not found If you run into that on ubuntu, there does not appear to be an ubuntu package for jq. Binaries and source are available at http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/

If you are on OS X and use Homebrew, install with 'brew install jq'

There is also prebuilt OSX binaries, http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/

Re: Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

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Post by jlgreco »

zokier wrote: post #17
guylhem wrote: post #3

I am thinking more and more about moving back to a text-only interface - previously I was very happy with mutt, tin, lynx (and links and w3m), centericq, etc, but only bash and vim stuck with me. Yet with the advent of unicode, there are fewer needs for a graphical interface - stay for a weather app. A clutter-free desktop consisting of mostly bash, along with gnu screen (or the likes) and ssh (or the likes) to remot…

>Yet with the advent of unicode, there are fewer needs for a graphical interface - stay for a weather app Of course the line between graphical and text-only is blurry. I'd argue that even small inline graphics are still graphics and thus not text- only , no matter how they are technically implemented (unicode or some "real" graphics). Personally I don't think we have to resort for using the unholy mixture of 70s and…

As far as I can tell, only modern equivalent of the terminal (a generic input/output device/program that can be used as the standard front end to an endless array of applications) that has gained any appreciable traction is the web browser. Any "modern terminal, but not actually a terminal" experience, using current tech, is going to be built on top of a web browser.

The browser is just the terminal though (which to be fair is a large piece of the puzzle); we still don't have the shell analog. The inadequacy of ChromeOS does not make me hopeful. ChromeOS is to the browser what midnight commander is to the terminal.

Re: Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

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Post by voltagex_ »

devindotcom wrote: post #5

Ack! I love this, so lightweight. I don't mean to do a pony request here, but can anyone think of an easy way to get this into a garden-variety windows 7 desktop, like through a rainmeter script or news ticker?

I wonder if RainMeter can host PowerShell.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/5808445

Re: Weather in your terminal, with ANSI colors and Unicode symbols

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Post by burntsushi »

nilved wrote: post #35

I realize this is a weird question, but I've never understood the point of having an applet show you the current weather. Does your home have no windows?

That's an interesting question that I hadn't really thought about before. Aside from just being generally curious about the exact weather conditions, here are some things that I use it for:

1. I live in a small apartment, so during the humid summers in New England with computer equipment running, it stays consistently hot. The A/C is running more often than not. In those cases, it's nice to get a quick gauge of the temperature/humidity. For example, it might guide me in whether I want to have a cigar in the evening.

2. I find it useful to ascribe a quantitative value to weather like temperature, since it gives me an idea of what I need to wear if I'm going to be outside for any length of time. e.g., low 50s I can get by comfortably at an idle position with shorts, shoes and a sweatshirt, but low 40s requires pants to stay comfortable. It can be difficult to tell that by just stepping outside for a few seconds...

Sorry about the long-winded response, but your question was curiously provocative!

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