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Dev tools · December 27, 2022

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Merry Sky, Dark Sky replacement and merry-timeline open source lib

Hello HN, This is a website I worked on during the holidays to fill the void of the upcoming dark sky shutdown. For me, the precipitation timeline was a view I was heavily relying on for everyday activities and planning. I had not found any replacement from the various weather apps. When I found pirateweather.net as a backend API, it gave me the motivation to put the pieces together and get back the experience I enjoyed. I then added more functionalities that I think was missing from the website such as a weekly chart view. I've been using the website reliably over christmas holidays. Hope…

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Merry Sky is a weather website built as a replacement for the discontinued Dark Sky service. It displays precipitation timelines and hourly forecasts using PirateWeather as its data source, along with a weekly chart view. The creator open-sourced the precipitation timeline component as a reusable library for displaying hourly weather data or activity schedules. The service was tested during the Christmas holiday period and is designed for users who relied on Dark Sky's detailed precipitation visualization for daily planning.

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Hello HN, This is a website I worked on during the holidays to fill the void of the upcoming dark sky shutdown. For me, the precipitation timeline was a view I was heavily relying on for everyday activities and planning. I had not found any replacement from the various weather apps. When I found pirateweather.net as a backend API, it gave me the motivation to put the pieces together and get back the experience I enjoyed. I then added more functionalities that I think was missing from the website such as a weekly chart view. I've been using the website reliably over christmas holidays. Hope you enjoy it too! Also I open sourced the visual component for drawing the precipitation timeline and you can use it for drawing weather information or any other hourly activities really https://github.com/guillaume/merry-timeline Interested in your feedback!

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