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1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.231s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
1. fghorow ◴[] No.35740719[source]
Prior to the 2017 "Great American Eclipse", I made reservations at two hotels -- each within a day's drive of my location that were near the path of totality. I then built a screenscraper from one of the weather sites (WUnderground, IIRC) that took the cloud forecast for the eclipse and presented it as a time-series. (Yes, I knew there was significant uncertainty involved!)

About 3 days before the eclipse, I decided which site to visit and ditched the other hotel reservation.

It worked well. My wife and I each saw our first total solar eclipse!!!

There's one coming up in 2024 too. Maybe some enterprising soul would like to expand on the idea and create cloud-coverage forecasts for the entire path of totality?