Harrison Was Here
I got tired of Weather Underground loading slowly and being bombarded by advertisements looking for basic weather data... so I wrote my own.
weather.baby is my minimalist weather website with no ads, no cookies, and no tracking. It launched on February 2021.
FEATURES
- Current conditions:
- temperature
- wind
- humidity
- rain chance
- UV index
- air quality
- Location resolution with IP2Location or browser geolocation
- Bookmarkable coordinate URLs
- Latitude/Longitude
/37.3797,-122.1375 - US zip codes
/90210 - IP address lookups
/8.8.8.8
- Latitude/Longitude
- Leaflet map with dragging and click-for-conditions
- Sunrise/Sunset Times
- Fahrenheit/Celsius selected based on browser locale
ALSO
- Dynamic background based on time of day
- World clocks
- Geo info
- Automatic refresh
- Easter egg: Emojis appear on holidays
DATA SOURCES
- Pirate Weather
- WAQI
- IP2Location
- SunCalc.js
- World Cities: KD-tree spatial index over ~150k world cities for nearest-city lookup
- Moon math courtesy of Max
TECH STACK
- Go backend
- Vanilla JavaScript with some jQuery
I deploy 3 instances of the weather.baby container on my Nomad setup with Consul. The container is Alpine Linux with my custom httpd server.
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