Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by steve_adams_86 on Friday April 28, 2023 @02:31AM (#35738142)

I’ve wanted to do this with Canadian data for years! My wife works for the organization which tracks our national tide data and builds our prediction models. It’s extremely fascinating stuff.

I’m looking forward to digging into your work. I haven’t really known where to start, but I can probably get a lot of inspiration here. Nice work!

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Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by jakear on Friday April 28, 2023 @09:44AM (#35741200)

Cool! Would love to have some extra datapoints. This is what the raw data I use looks like https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/harcon.html?id=9410580#

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Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by andrewirwin on Sunday April 30, 2023 @12:53PM (#35764368)

If you are OK with R, there is some good code here that makes predictions from harmonics: https://dankelley.github.io/oce/reference/tidedata.html

Of course, you can download the predictions from DFO too, e.g., https://api-iwls.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/swagger-ui/index.html

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Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by steve_adams_86 on Sunday April 30, 2023 @03:02PM (#35765569)

Hey, thanks! I didn’t realize they have a prediction API. I assumed I’d need to produce a lot of this data myself from a giant csv or similar. This is awesome!

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