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Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API by alexander0042 on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @04:35PM (#34331856)
I'm the dev for this, so can shed some light on this! Weather Underground was a pretty out there choice- I guess the kind of people who like putting together weather APIs aren't great at naming things. I considered "Bright Ground", and still have the domain name for it, so maybe it'd be worth spinning up another API endpoint/ branding that uses that and has a more commercial focus, keeping Pirate Weather as the free and open source branding.
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Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API by ummonk on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @04:46PM (#34332003)
That would actually be a great idea.
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Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API by guntherhermann on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @05:38PM (#34332542)
FWIW I love the name Pirate Weather. Thanks for the work!
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Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API by nivenkos on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @05:59PM (#34332720)
Weather Underground would be hilarious.
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Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API by zerocrates on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @06:08PM (#34332776)
Not only is it already a thing, IBM of all people own them now.
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Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API by astrange on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @07:24PM (#34333425)
We took the real Weather Underground so unseriously that half of them became college professors and one of them was on Jeopardy, seems consistent.
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Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API by Bloating on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @07:01PM (#34333231)
wunderground.com has existed for a long time. Defining feature it is can crowd source weather
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Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API by phpisthebest on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @07:37PM (#34333513)
That used to be the defining feature. IBM has killed the community and put alot of restrictions on the data
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Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API by midoridensha on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:41PM (#34334419)
I wonder if they put the codebase into ClearCase too.
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Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API by maphew on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @01:11AM (#34335584)
Rrr-mate, Rmate, Are-matey,

And variants thereof perhaps

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Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API by argc on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @01:25AM (#34335662)
I like the name pirate weather a lot.
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Re:Pirate Weather: A Free, Open, and Documented Forecast API by dbuder on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @02:30AM (#34336027)
Keep the name - this is not vc bait
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