> Weathergraph was then ported to Garmin (as Pebble shut down), and then to Apple Watch widget
I don't think I was a particularly early user of Weathergraph - but when I finally had to retire my Pebble Time I only considered platforms that had your watchface.
I wrote this blog post up to detail secret design changes to a separated cycleway intersection in Sydney that have been in the works for at least 7 years.
It's a record of how hard it is to get safe cycling intersections built in Sydney, even when the improvements are required approval conditions of a $4.3 billion portion of a motorway project (yes – Sydney is still building urban motorways this century).
That a “major design feature” or “key consideration of the proposal” could be deleted in secret, 2 years after going through community consultation, 3 years after the Review of Environmental Factors, 7 years after the initial M8 (WestConnex) approval condition B51 concept design, and announced by omission floored everyone in the room.
Came here to say this - looks awfully like OSM data and no attribution.
I'm also not clear on whether Google likes displaying OSM data on their map; it's a strange combination. I can't ever remember seeing "Copyright Google, Copyright OpenStreetMap contributors" in the footer of a page.
Thanks! It does seem to have lots of cycleways but I think it's helped by it's low density and small area (with the airport).
> It could be beneficial to have the ability filter out rural councils, and focus on denser urban areas.
I agree - I think comparisons by area and by density would be really interesting.
> For more retail appeal, you could consider some quick headline numbers at the top as bullet points. For example, the most cycle-friendly council, the worst (excluding rural), the most improved.
I hadn't thought of that but I think that's a great idea, thanks!
Seconding this. I was able to just run it with docker compose on a cheap mini PC and it chugs away happily, interfacing with all manner of devices (Phillips/Lifx/IKEA/Airpurifier/Bunnings brands). Only gets tricky to set up devices when you're dealing with some hostile cloud based gadget that doesn't want to play nice.
Unbelievable it can all be controlled offline using Siri on an iPhone, or other voice assistants.
It can even display your electricity consumption by counting the LED pulses on your smart electricity meter that fires every 1000th of a kw/h, only takes a cheap ESP32 and a photodiode: https://github.com/klaasnicolaas/home-assistant-glow
> While the lower right corner is traditional, any corner of the map is acceptable. Alternatively, the attribution may be placed adjacent to the map or on a splash screen or pop-up shown when a user starts the app, device, website, etc.
Yep, thank you and habi for bringing this up. Now, after learning the Attribution Guidelines more thoroughly, I'm updating the app to show the attribution directly on a map and fading it as specified by the guidelines.
As an OpenStreetMap contributor I really appreciate the proper attribution you have in the bottom right, rather than hiding it behind a button like Mapbox and some others do - thanks!
There’s no attribution that I can see on the second embedded map on the page (on mobile). A honking great Radar logo, but no OSM attribution.
This trend of “our branding takes priority over the required attribution for the free map data we’re using, but hey, they’re a little nonprofit so can’t afford to sue us” really ticks me off. Mapbox started it as a calculated move, and since then others have followed claiming it’s “the standard”.
> I have a Mastodon account, but I don't love it, for the same reasons I didn't like Twitter. In addition, I think that way of consuming content is generally like watching mainstream TV or listening to radio with ads. You're letting a bunch of people who aren't really that important to you, or qualified to do the job, be the content curators for you.
Isn't that the opposite of Mastodon? The _default_ Mastodon home feed is only people you explicitly follow and posts they re-share (and it's easy to hide re-posts if desired). There is no suggested content.
It's basically as close as social media can get to an RSS feed.
OP doesn't like mastodon for the same reasons [they] didn't like Twitter. That would be mostly:
- "It's not really possible to use Twitter without at least a little bit of doomscrolling"
- "I think that the core concept of a "tweet" is fundamentally unhealthy, because by design it promotes angry and extreme content."
- "Most users don't understand that by "dunking" on someone, they are actually promoting the content."
This is basically a critic of fast-paced short interaction based on an infinite timeline. The comment about TV afterwards may seem weird but for me it makes sense. The whole concept of having everything in a single bucket is very TV-like. I don't believe user behavior will be very different on mastodon than twitter: people will follow some very productive accounts and their feed will be dominated by these.
>You're letting a bunch of people who aren't really that important to you, or qualified to do the job, be the content curators for you.
isn't that most social media? If you want traditional news, you subscribe to a news site. if you want experts you need to be in those respective communities. Expecting journalists or domain experts to freely share quality information on an informal platform isn't impossible, but shouldn't be expected. pseudoanonymous discussion shouldn't be your primary source for most "real" content and issues.
I don't think I was a particularly early user of Weathergraph - but when I finally had to retire my Pebble Time I only considered platforms that had your watchface.
Thanks very much for the attention to detail!