Sure do love to have 50MB of bullshit poorly optimized Javascript visual effects crammed into my browser on every page. The cute little animations definitely make up for the fact that it takes like 5 seconds every time I load my private messages.
I've had a job where I needed to know weather conditions in multiple cities, and weather.gov is like a flat grey, white and powder blue excel sheet. Meanwhile weather.com is covered in all kinds of animations, and videos, and has much more modern and busy looking visual design and a hundred ads. It's so slow, and if weather.gov was down I'd be so mad that I had to glance at weather.com.
Love you weather dot gov, your minimalist design and minimal system requirements are beautiful to me.
wunderground is like the centrist option, and it has a funny name too
I mostly just use the 10 day forecast graph they make which is just a slightly more info dense version of weather.gov's 2 day hourly weather forecast graph.
It's owned by the shitty weather.com people lol. I use weather.gov or the open source app wX on my phone
I have wX installed but rarely use it. I'm usually just looking for a detailed hourly forecast graph which wX doesn't seem to have. It's nice for when I want to watch the radar though.
I really just want this graph but for 7+ days so I can make plans for the next week or so at a glance.
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.7145&lon=-74.0071&unit=0&lg=english&FcstType=graphical
I'm wondering how you use a 7-day hourly forecast, but it might be that I just don't travel enough to need something like that.
I usually use a 5-7 day at-a-glance to sort out the week, and a 1 day hourly forecast to get a rough idea of when to expect rain.
The weather can change very quickly in my climate region, so it's nice to have a rough idea of when things will be happening. The daily forecast might show rain, but looking at an hourly forecast might show it is only for like 30 mins, that sort of thing. I also ride my bike often, and I like to plan rides with other people, so the extra detail can be very useful when trying to decide a route for the next weekend and such. Precipitation Accumulation is really helpful too for determining if it's going to be manageable misty or a long downpour, etc.
Ah, I usually just need to know if the weather in 1-10 cities will be bad enough to shut down traffic today, I haven't paid a lot of attention to the extended forecast.
I shit you not, you can easily code an app that does exactly that, it's not even all that hard to do and it's free to run. I just followed a YouTube video.
aviationweather.gov has cool radar pictures, not sure why they made a separate website since it seems like it would be easy to consolidate
You may not like it, but marxists.org is what peak web design looks like
EmmaGoldman, I offer you my sword in the people's war against stupid fucking slow websites.
It could have been worse we could have ended up with activevx dhtml etc.
Flash was cool tho. Let's bring back flash (but not for navigation).
Exactly but some idiots decided it was a good idea to put the language on the serverside as well and made the travesty thats nodejs.
I quit JS at jquery i refuse to go any further.
In the year of our lord 2024, there are still websites that replace the mouse pointer
If I leave a website open in a background tab for two days, and it's using more resources than when I was actively using it, then the company that made that website should lose its website license and have to go back to snail mail.
As a workaround while were working on enforcing that, in Firefox go to
about:unloadsyou can at least quickly get rid of all those.
My extreme annoyance at every video game that requires a loading screen to return to menu
Every time I stumble across a gorgeous, unaltered web-1.0-ass website, it is a gift. I also like using Ublock to element-pick shit out of websites until they look nice though.
Giant piles of plastic crap, as far as the eye can see...
My favorite one is "header and sidebar that takes up most of the page" coupled with "clickbait adverts disrupting the formatting of the article"
