Union Terrace Gardens has some excellent pieces that were put up as part of a street art festival . Adding culture to the city is great, but there is something about 'santioned creativity' that really annoys me. I know the residents around here would be up in arms if someone did a giant mural overnight.
Reading: Cibola Burn, Virtual Light
Location: 57.1578,-2.2143
Weather: 2°C Partly cloudy starting in the evening.
I think the weather stuff I played with yesterday is going to be an input to a quantified self dashboard I have been toying with building for a long time.
I have wanted to put together a dash for years, but I have always struggled to find technologies that I want to work with. For a demo at work I have had to put together a simple dash, all it does is show interface throughput for two interfaces, but it has give a chance to play with the front end UI and backend webserving components that I want to use.
I am lurking in a coffee shop now, which is a great time to have a first whack at the idea.
It is Sunday, so that makes seven days of writing .
Reading: Cibola Burn, Virtual Light
Location: 57.1446, -2.1060
Weather: 6˚C Clear.
— Warren Ellis (@warrenellis) December 1, 2016
My good friend Warren Ellis (well complete stranger, but I read his newsletter so that is pretty the same thing) tweets pictures of where he is with the weather info overlaid. I am sure he is using some sort of newfangled social media filter to provide the info. I want something similar for the footnotes on my fairly post, but social media stuff is no good for me, I need an API to use.
Now, as hard as I try I cannot find a weather service that will just spit some
data at me. I really want to do
curl weathersite.internet | jq...
and end up
with a nice summary for a location. The web is closing up and locking down,
which means an API key is required.
After putting this off for a while, this morning I remembered I have previously registered for a weather service. A steaming cup of coffee later and I found the python bindings to the excellent forecast.io already installed.
import forecastio
api_key = "yer_key_here_bampot"
lat = 57.168
lng = -2.1055
forecast = forecastio.load_forecast(api_key, lat, lng)
weather = forecast.daily().data[0]
temperatureMax = int(weather.apparentTemperatureMax)
temperatureMin = int(weather.apparentTemperatureMin)
summary = weather.summary
print("{}°C {}".format(temperatureMax, summary))
Gives a nice
4°C Partly cloudy throughout the day.
There isn't anything to this, If I could find an API that didn't require a key I probably wouldn't even use python. But madness makes more madness, so here we are.
Reading: Cibola Burn, Virtual Light
Location: 57.168, -2.1055
Weather: 4°C Partly cloudy throughout the day.
Warren Ellis's morning.computer was the main driver for me to start blogging everyday. I like to think I am being influenced by someone super productive, rather than blantently copying him.
I have felt terrible all week and haven't had energy to really do anything. Having an image to post everyday turned out to be an excellent idea. I do need to go through the archives to top up the reserve of images at some point.
Reading: Cibola Burn
Reading: Cibola Burn, Excession Location: 57.168, -2.1055