I live on the command line, so I really dig this sort of thing. And this one in particular looks very nice. I'm a fan!
If you're open to bug reports/feature requests:
* The image for clear weather is a bright sun, which is a little odd to see in the 'Night' column
* Many city names are duplicates. How do I know I've got the right one?
curl http://www.srh.noaa.gov/data/PQR/AFDPQR | less
Love it. I starred it, as a reminder to create/contribute new icons, in the future. :)
Way better than the other "weather apps for the terminal" I've seen on HN.
Way better than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9503882 posted 7 days ago!
Nicely done, ASCII art looks great.
I like the utility, its convenient not to leave the command line.
On another note, was it really necessary to add the bit about the NSA? Hasn't that been played to death now?
A few years ago, you'd get notice by taking an old text-based service and wrapping it up in a web frontend. Now, the cool kids are taking web-based services and wrapping them up in text-based frontends.
Next thing someone will have the bright idea of transmitting data as sounds over VOIP services, and we can start setting up BBSes on skype...
Very nicely done. Terminalize ALL THE THINGS!
Why not do some releases? It's one of the advantages of Go that it is easy to release binaries for?
This is one of the best "terminal weather apps" I have seen. Love the ASCII art.
You just got me to finally install and try out Go! Thanks! Also great app!
this is awesome, first go app to run for me, this language looks fun
Maybe we would all do well by closing our terminals, taking a break, and going outside to see what the weather is really like.
Whenever I see a weather "app" I always think: "This is really a weather display utility" and then wonder about the quality / longevity of the service it depends on and how the information is provided.
What would interest me is an implementation that allows you to plug in different weather backends, so that having an API key to worldweatheronline, or screen-scraping weather underground, or building a bridge to your serial-port connected weather station all can target the same interface; to provide current conditions/historical conditions, a forecast, etc.
Are there standards for this, or is it mostly ad-hoc, the whim of the sites or commercial services which aggregate information and provide forecasts?