{"id":7584,"date":"2016-02-21T09:24:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T14:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7584"},"modified":"2016-02-21T09:24:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T14:24:35","slug":"ascii-weather-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7584","title":{"rendered":"ASCII weather forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, when I almost managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7573\">kill my server<\/a>, I was playing with a service that I just discovered: Weather forecast in ASCII.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wttr.in\/ottawa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7585\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ascii-weather.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ascii-weather.png 1020w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ascii-weather-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ascii-weather-768x495.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, almost ASCII. UTF-8 characters, to be precise. (And it was while messing with those xterm settings that I managed to enter a command using the wrong syntax.)<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s a nicely formatted three-day forecast suitable for text terminals.\u00a0And it has pretty thorough world coverage.<\/p>\n<p>I just hope the forecast holds up for Tuesday, as I&#8217;ll have quite a few errands to run that day and I&#8217;d prefer not to get stuck in a snowstorm.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7584' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, when I almost managed to kill my server, I was playing with a service that I just discovered: Weather forecast in ASCII. Well, almost ASCII. UTF-8 characters, to be precise. (And it was while messing with those xterm settings that I managed to enter a command using the wrong syntax.) Still, it&#8217;s a <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7584' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-weather","category-6-id","category-34-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7587,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7584\/revisions\/7587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}