Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site

(brolly.sh)

24 points | by jsax 2 hours ago

3 comments

  • devindotcom 21 minutes ago
    This is cool and I appreciate how compact it is. I'd love to have this as a regular load on my desktop. My only note would be that the precipitation graph feels unnecessarily bulky - wouldn't it work with the same type of horizontal graph seen for the ones below it? I know precipitation demands somewhat more precision and immediacy, but you could also do a variable graph - left half next hour, right half next 12 hours or something.
    • jsax 14 minutes ago
      Thanks for the feedback!

      I agree, it’s definitely something to work on as it takes up a considerable amount of vertical space.

      I found the precipitation chart challenging as you need to present both the forecasted precipitation, and the potential likelihood of the precipitation occurring. Something I’ve considered is using a horizontal graph with different shades of grey through black in each bar to represent the probability, but it would somewhat reduce accessibility.

  • kachnuv_ocasek 29 minutes ago
    How do you turn on the text-only mode? I've tried Accept: text/plain but I always get HTML.
  • popalchemist 13 minutes ago
    DIG IT. This is how the web used to feel.