Star Wars Weather Forecast(tomscott.com)

90 pointsby sdoering13 anni fa22 comments

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

22 comments

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-levin13 anni fa

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

muloka13 anni fa

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

TsiCClawOfLight13 anni fa

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

GotAnyMegadeth13 anni fa

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

agilebyte13 anni fa

You have to enter it without the comma.

lewispb13 anni fa

Told me that Bristol was Alderan

estel13 anni fa

I assume that was the point?

danjordan13 anni fa

My favourite bit is the Konami code.

saraid21613 anni fa

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

Ecio7813 anni fa

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

apapli13 anni fa

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

maw13 anni fa

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.

struppi13 anni fa

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

ArekDymalski13 anni fa

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

stcredzero13 anni fa

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.

jpfaraco13 anni fa

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...

RyanMcGreal13 anni fa

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

Yaggo13 anni fa

Nice but please push the chosen state to history.

ritonlajoie13 anni fa

loved the Utini !

tehwalrus13 anni fa

this made me smile, thanks! :)

seivan13 anni fa

Fun! Missing permalinks.