Video download link | md5sum 233c32dd494360f5c6a215c1130574fd Weather Forecasts in Gemini Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0



Summary: As a great example of innovation on top of Gemini Protocol today we discuss Caolan's weather tool (limited to the UK at this time)

It is widely known and understood by now that many so-called forecasting (or weather) "sites" and "apps" are little but malware or at least spyware, profiling people's movements, minds etc.

For the command line there are tools for retrieving local weather, notably Igor's curl-based service, which is very widely used and not applicable to Gemini (curl apparently supports gopher:// not but gemini://). One site from Berlin used to display local weather based on such stuff (it probably still does this), even over gopher://, and I saw American capsules of Gemini presenting some local weather.

The above video shows how to get weather forecasts for locations across the UK (example forecast and general outlook).

Caolan has certainly been getting creative with Python over CGI (pages generated upon demand from visitors)! Well done, looks great! He did warn about rejection of progress almost exactly one year ago. Posted March 4 2021: "To apply Gemini's restrictions too stubbornly, however, would risk suffocating it. And, as the spec becomes increasingly solid and immovable, I hope we don't turn to silencing Geminauts that twist it into beautiful new experiments." ⬆