Star Wars Weather Forecast(tomscott.com)

90 pointsby sdoeringvor 13 Jahren22 comments

http://www.tomscott.com/weather/starwars/

22 comments

tomscottvor 13 Jahren

Hello. I'm Tom, and I made this -- more than three years ago. No idea why it's suddenly turned up here; it doesn't exactly fit under 'hacker' or 'news'!

It did once have permalinks, but adding translations in 2010 messed things up and I never got around to fixing the code. (Do try picking a RTL language, though, I'm quite proud of how that works.)

It should (I think) store the city you've requested in a cookie for next time, though. Maybe. It's really old and dodgy code.

Still, full marks for YQL for putting up with all the weather requests they've gotten over the years...

daniel-levinvor 13 Jahren

Interestingly the Hebrew version prints Dagobah as Dagobash (דגובאש), and apparently Johannesburg, SA doesn't exist as a city.

mulokavor 13 Jahren

+1 for permalinks as well, it would make sharing this with others a lot easier.

TsiCClawOfLightvor 13 Jahren

This is really awesome! Not hacker, but really geeky :) Is there any chance of you cleaning this up and fixing permalinks?

GotAnyMegadethvor 13 Jahren

Bristol, UK was destroyed by the Death Star long ago...

agilebytevor 13 Jahren

You have to enter it without the comma.

lewispbvor 13 Jahren

Told me that Bristol was Alderan

estelvor 13 Jahren

I assume that was the point?

danjordanvor 13 Jahren

My favourite bit is the Konami code.

saraid216vor 13 Jahren

I can't get it to trigger. Even after reading the source code. :(

Ecio78vor 13 Jahren

check on the upper right corner after you did the Konami code

apaplivor 13 Jahren

Cool site! You have Australia's country code as AS - it's AU. (eg type Melbourne Australia to replicate). Cheers!

mawvor 13 Jahren

Different standards use different abbreviations. Here, Tom is using FIPS: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FIPS_country_codes.

If it were my site, I'd probably also use AU (and AT), though.

struppivor 13 Jahren

And it shows Austria as AU which should really be AT.

ArekDymalskivor 13 Jahren

This is sweet. I just wish there was an option to link directly to a particular city.

stcredzerovor 13 Jahren

There's no use in an app where you have to look up the readout to interpret the result. That means the potential market for this app are SW geeks who have memorized the climates of planets and moons in Star Wars.

Analysis: sizeable market.

jpfaracovor 13 Jahren

Love this. +1 to permalinks, and would love to see better typography -- IMO replacing Tahoma with Open Sans Regular, or Light would go a long way. And perhaps a serif font for the planet name...

RyanMcGrealvor 13 Jahren

Damascus is currently like Tatooine: 36 degrees C and fair.

Yaggovor 13 Jahren

Nice but please push the chosen state to history.

ritonlajoievor 13 Jahren

loved the Utini !

tehwalrusvor 13 Jahren

this made me smile, thanks! :)

seivanvor 13 Jahren

Fun! Missing permalinks.