Subj : about firesidebbs
To   : All
From : test
Date : Wed Mar 05 2025 20:48:05

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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