I have to express how impressed I am of the growing utility of the weather door lonewolf created on his bbs. So impressed with the full functionality of it. Really remarkable,really.

I must be just a nut or something, but I go on his bbs every day and geek out.

For anyone who hasn't checked it out, he has implemented a fantastic sixel representation of animated weather data including radar and cloud cover with three zoom settings.

this is the appeal, for me, of modern bbs'ing. what can we do to replace the browser and/or mobile apps? and modern api's are the key here.

i started doing similar on my board with the creation onf a pilot's portal, of sorts. for flight planning, I have a few tools. and currently i'm working on screen scraping scripts for reading the airman information manual. and federal regulations, etc.

got a movie lookup tool. but this weather tool really exposes so many possibilities in my yes,.

sixel likely rubs alot of people wrong. but i love it.

... Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

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On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 20:48:05 +0000
"test" (21:1/249) <test@f249.n1.z21.fidonet> wrote:

I have to express how impressed I am of the growing utility of the
weather door lonewolf created on his bbs. So impressed with the full functionality of it. Really remarkable,really.

I must be just a nut or something, but I go on his bbs every day and
geek out.

For anyone who hasn't checked it out, he has implemented a fantastic
sixel representation of animated weather data including radar and
cloud cover with three zoom settings.

this is the appeal, for me, of modern bbs'ing. what can we do to
replace the browser and/or mobile apps? and modern api's are the key
here.

i started doing similar on my board with the creation onf a pilot's
portal, of sorts. for flight planning, I have a few tools. and
currently i'm working on screen scraping scripts for reading the
airman information manual. and federal regulations, etc.

got a movie lookup tool. but this weather tool really exposes so many possibilities in my yes,.

sixel likely rubs alot of people wrong. but i love it.

bbs.endoftheline.com has the NASA Picture of the Day, when available,
in sixel format if you want to check it out. Head to the Doors >
Weather & Space section.
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Re: about firesidebbs
By: test to All on Wed Mar 05 2025 08:48 pm

I have to express how impressed I am of the growing utility of the weather door lonewolf created on his bbs. So impressed with the full functionality of it. Really remarkable,really.

I must be just a nut or something, but I go on his bbs every day and geek out.

I should probably check out his BBS more.

For anyone who hasn't checked it out, he has implemented a fantastic sixel representation of animated weather data including radar and cloud cover with three zoom settings.

I do think it's a pretty cool weather door.

this is the appeal, for me, of modern bbs'ing. what can we do to replace the browser and/or mobile apps? and modern api's are the key here.

I think it's interesting to think about that, because the modern browser & such are what has generally replaced BBSing.

sixel likely rubs alot of people wrong. but i love it.

I really like sixels, and it's hard to imagine them rubbing anyone wrong. I think one limitation, though, is that sixels are a fixed size, so if someone has a large terminal, then a sixel might appear small to them. But the BBS could potentially detect the client's terminal size and scale the sixel accordingly.

I think sixels and RIP (Remote Imaging Protocol) could both be used for very similar purposes, but maybe different use cases. And I don't remember if RIP has built-in scaling, but I suspect it might; I think RIP has a specific resolution (as in image dimensions) in is spec, so it might be the same pixel dimensions scaled to the user's terminal size, which has its pros and cons.

Nightfox
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Re: Re: about firesidebbs
By: Nigel Reed to All on Wed Mar 05 2025 15:44:05

bbs.endoftheline.com has the NASA Picture of the Day, when available,

Hmmm...Where have I seen that before? ;)
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