teaser for my little winter project.

[skatterbean@mastodon.social]

@hbons when I was building my TUI hamclock this infuriated me to no end. Most every site in US gov has somewhat decently documented API for their services. NOAA? Nah.

I feel like I should be grateful there's even the .json files since so much of it is probably still teletype driven.

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@skatterbean the story of technical engineering.

designing the sensors, putting them on a satellite on top of a rocket and launching it into space in a stable position between the Earth and Sun, beaming the data back: no problemo.

formatting and documenting the data for human consumption. nah that’s too hard.

[hbons@mastodon.social]

adding a main summary card for those not yet familiar interpreting the numbers.

I wonder if I can turn this into a widget that goes next to the weather in the shell?

#linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #design #aurora

[hbons@mastodon.social]

just hardcoding European cities for now as I don't have location support yet for the first release.

sorry non-Europeans, your day will come.

[hbons@mastodon.social]

it needs an icon of some kind for balance... too much text.

[lynx@ohai.social]

@hbons This makes me wonder if anyone has done something similar for Home Assistant... I'll have to go digging later.

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@Lynx yes! someone in this thread replied with a link.

[garrett@mastodon.xyz]

@hbons Is there a way to show some kind of a simple graph? Like, perhaps percentages over the next couple hours? Or some kind of indicator of how likely things are now?

(General weather apps might probably be good inspirations.)

[blackwolf12333@hachyderm.io]

@hbons can we already get this somewhere? I'd love to try it out

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@blackwolf12333 needs another week or 2. then I’ll have some flatpak CI builds for testing.

[scottishwildcat@mastodon.ie]

@garrett @hbons I quite like how Aurora Forecast on Android does it... a bit garish so could be refined a bit I'm sure, but easy to see at a glance how favourable the current conditions are.

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@scottishwildcat @garrett that's much better than the most installed iOS one!

[scottishwildcat@mastodon.ie]

@hbons @garrett It is! I only found it recently, so can't vouch for its accuracy yet…

[hbons@mastodon.social]

@scottishwildcat @garrett there’s only one source for the data. it’s literally a matter of presentation and interpretation.

[scottishwildcat@mastodon.ie]

@hbons @garrett True. Even so, I have 3 aurora apps on my phone that rarely agree with each other

[hbons@mastodon.social]

adding a small inline ️ icon and suddenly your eyes have a kind of anchor from which to explore the rest of the text.

sometimes decorations are good.

#linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #rust #design #aurora

[hbons@mastodon.social]

got some line graphs going using SVG and with the system accent colour.

still blurry and need to iterate on the style, but it's a start.

#linux #opensource #gnome #gtk #rust #design #aurora