Post B1m91kE2M6mcaYuEQS by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
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 (DIR) Post #B1lucYNrqW0ZGVb8M4 by stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe
       2025-12-30T10:49:32Z
       
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       Exactly one year ago, on 30th December 2024, I laid the foundation of FediMeteo. I took a VM, installed FreeBSD, and set up the first jail to support Italy. The goal was to create a tool for my own use, support a few countries, and announce it.Unexpectedly, the enthusiasm was incredible. That pushed me to keep going, support more countries and cities, and turn it into what it is today.FediMeteo now supports 38 countries and 2,937 cities, with more than 7,700 followers in the Fediverse alone, not counting the many people who follow via RSS feeds or visit the web pages.If you are curious to read the story and some technical details, you can find it here:https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/Today is also Tuesday, a #ThankYouTuesday, so I want to say thanks to:* OpenMeteo - @openmeteo - for providing accurate, high quality data, without which FediMeteo would be far less useful* @grunfink - creator of snac, who made all of this possible using very few resources, on a 4 euro per month VM* FreeBSD, which thanks to the efficiency of the OS and its jail implementation made it possible to run this service in a stable and efficient way with minimal effort* FediFollows - @FediFollows - that periodically spreads the word about cities, countries, and the enthusiasm around the project*All of you*, who suggested, encouraged, corrected, and celebrated this projectAnd forward toward supporting more countries and other interesting features already in the works.Happy birthday, FediMeteo! 🎉#FediMeteo #HappyBirthday #Meteo #Weather #FreeBSD #snac #snac2 #OpenMeteo #Fediverse
       
 (DIR) Post #B1lwoi6Njy6smwLN8y by grunfink@comam.es
       2025-12-30T11:15:16Z
       
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       grunfink - creator of snac, who made all of this possible using very few resources, on a 4 euro per month VMThank you very much to you, Stefano. Your Fedimeteo service is a greatly valuable public service, and even if it was the only use of #snac out there, I would be fully satisfied.CC: @openmeteo@fosstodon.org @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services
       
 (DIR) Post #B1m91kE2M6mcaYuEQS by hankg@friendica.myportal.social
       2025-12-30T13:30:52Z
       
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       This is a very cool service that I only discovered because of this post. It's a great write up about the backstory of the project as well. I either forgot it existed or learned about snac, a C-based AP server implementation, because of it as well. Neat!
       
 (DIR) Post #B1mmoNQXnuiCHbw8Z6 by stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe
       2025-12-30T20:00:14Z
       
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       @miyuru @openmeteo @grunfink @FediFollows look better 😉  the vps *was* - now it's still a 4 euro per month vps, but another one at OVH (datacenter in Milano, Italy)