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I've been working on and off for many years on my own weather app mainly to learn Swift/ SwiftUI. Forecasts come from national and international weather institutes via https://open-meteo.com/ but I am running my own server component that ingests data from NOAA, MSC, DWD, EUMETNET, CWA, and more for radar-based rain alerts, weather alerts, and my own map layers for the app (radar, temperature, precipitation, radar, pressure, wind, ...). It's based on open and free data and all features will be free to use on release date. I have no intention of making money with this, just something I personally like to use.

Most features are available in NA and EU by now so if this feels remotely interesting, feel free to download. Friends and family tell me it's miles better than what they were using but feel free to check if out and give me some feedback :)

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/xf5iJcHh

For some screenshots: https://bsky.app/profile/oscars.love

GitHub (outdated readme): https://github.com/strumswell/oscar-weather

Comment · 9 months ago
Purelymail is really good. I've been using it for over 4 years now and haven't had any issues around deliverability or availability. It might not be fancy but it has almost any feature you'd want.
Comment · 4 years ago
Great article, in which I find myself partially. I have tried for many years to be quite perfectionistic but mostly because of the feeling of not being good enough. It's a pretty destructive behavior as you're always anxious and imagining the worst. At some point at university, I was able to slowly discard this behavior, although this development is certainly not over yet. What helped me most were good friends and a part-time job in a consulting firm, which I absolutely hated btw. But overall I learned to focus more on the important things and generally to care less. I'm generally happier with my work and don't let setbacks get to me as quickly. Rather, I take them as a challenge to become even better. (Starting my first job as an engineer after university soon btw! :))
Comment · 4 years ago
Thank you so much, I was able to successfully cancel my plan for free!
Comment · 4 years ago
I don't really get your point here as you don't have to buy ASICs every X years with PoW consensus. A friend of mine mines with his 3070 in a mining pool and makes a small plus with it. Hell, you can even mine with a 7 year old PC. Will you ever find a block? Probably not, but you're still securing the network and may get lucky. I don't see how this incentivizes centralization any more than PoS. With PoS, you have to be part of the network by spending money on a token while with PoW, you just need an existing PC with some compute power.

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