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Products that do what linecast – weather, radar, tides and maps in the terminal does
I've been working on linecast, a free and open source collection of six terminal applications: weather, radar, sunshine, moon, tides, and maps. It's as if the Old Farmer's Almanac was built for Minitel. I made it because I'd been using the terminal a lot more over the past couple of years, I'm opinionated about weather forecast IA and design, and I liked the idea of making useful little terminal desk ornaments. The applications use ANSI color and Unicode braille characters rather than graphics. They reflow as the terminal is resized and derive their colors from your current terminal palette,…
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I love the sunlight and dread the long, dark winter evenings of Northern Europe. I often look up sunrise / sunset times and count off the days until the darkness is gone. Now I've written a terminal app for this (Mac/Linux) Features: a colorful summary of daylight times for your location; projected change over the coming days; handles NO_COLOR and a ---short flag if you dislike the output format. The location is IP-based but you can override this if you're on a VPN. Just create a terminal alias with the --loc flag. The app supports areas in the arctic / antarctic circle too.…
2025 · github.com
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A hobby project of mine that was surprisingly easy to put together! I love waking up and seeing the freshly generated image.
2024 · github.com
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2023 · briefsky.app
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2023 · github.com
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I had been wanting to try experimenting with nowcasting since the death of Dark Sky and finally got around to it. This application essentially became a playground for me to experiment with various weather datasets and geospatial visualizations. Some interesting concepts that came from it: The nowcast is using pySTEPS optical flow under the hood: https://pysteps.readthedocs.io/en/latest/auto_examples/plot_.... This library is super cool. It bugged me that every radar visualization just gave you choppy snapshots in time, so I spent some time working on building a…
Jul 2026 · strataweather.com
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This is a service I've built to provide equirectangular cloud maps of the whole Earth, updated every 3 hours, for free. It's based on infrared and visible light data from EUMETSAT, processed to enhance the clouds and try to reduce the impact of surface temperatures on the final image. I built it because it's surprisingly hard to find these kinds of images in a format that's useful to developers and hobbyists. I was building a 3D ISS tracker and wanted to include live clouds but couldn't find anything good, so I got sidetracked, and here we are.
2023 · github.com
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I miss Dark Sky, so I built my own weather app. Here's how GrayCloud works: * Raincast: minute-by-minute rain prediction and accumulation tracking for your exact location * Forecasts: 10 day forecasts use multiple high resolution sources and correct for bias at your location. * Alerts: rain starting, stopping, severe weather, daily summary and more * Widgets: home and lock screen widgets * Multi-platform: apple watch and mac apps I use NOAA and ECMWF models for core weather data and a custom model to compute rain accumulation and the next 60 minute radar movements. I also offer Apple…
Jun 2026 · graycloud.app
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