Tagged with 'weather'
Adding Push Notifications to the Tempest WeatherBot
- August 22, 2022
- 7 minutes
- automation, bots, inspiration, php, tech, weather
This is the "final" installment of my summer 2022 blog series about the development of my Slack Tempest WeatherBot.
Read MoreAdding External Data to the Tempest WeatherBot
- August 08, 2022
- 5 minutes
- automation, bots, inspiration, php, tech, weather
This is the third in the short series of my journey building the Slack Tempest WeatherBot. In this post I'm walking through the steps to incorporate external data from the National Weather Service (NWS) API for alerts and forecast options.
Read MoreExpanding Interactivity with the Tempest WeatherBot
- July 25, 2022
- 5 minutes
- automation, bots, inspiration, php, tech, weather
In the last post I wrote about the basics of building the Slack Tempest WeatherBot and its basic set of command arguments. This post builds on those commands with an overview of expanding the Slack interactivity by adding a bot app home tab.
Read MoreCreating a Slack Bot for Tempest Weather Station
- July 11, 2022
- 5 minutes
- automation, bots, inspiration, php, tech, weather
In summer 2020, I picked up a WeatherFlow Tempest station...a purchase I'd been considering for the better part of a year. It's an awesome and compact little thing, and on the whole I've been super happy with it. In my location it tends to over-report rainfall as the haptic rain sensor is also sensitive to vibrations on the mounting point (a pole in my yard).
Read MorePollinators on the Prairie
One of the things I've always enjoyed about our little home on the prairie is the fact we've always a selection of various critters or insects beneficial to the larger environment. Part of this is bolstered by the fact we live across the road from several hundred acres of waterfowl production area owned and managed by the US Fish and Wildlife service. This area isn't native prairie, but it is largely undisturbed relatively native plant species beneficial for the habitat of waterfowl and all other manner of critter.
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A Minor Delay
What a week it's been. Primarily holed up inside 24/7 as we reached record lows with windchill. Our lowest temp reached -33°F, and with the wind we had would've made it feel like closer to -55°F. Dangerously cold. "Historically" cold. Things (schools, businesses, etc.) wound up being more or less shut down from about Tuesday morning through Thursday afternoon. It's certainly the coldest I could remember for the better part of 25 years (it was the mid-1990's). And it's the only time I ever remember campus being closed for more than a day (two and a half, all told).
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Past Speaking Engagements
I was a speaker at MMS Flamingo Edition, October 20-23, 2024!
I was a speaker at TCSMUG OSD Day, July 31, 2024!
I was a speaker at NWSCUG, July 19, 2024!
I was a speaker at MMSMOA, May 5-9, 2024!
I was a speaker at BrainStorm K20 Wisconsin Dells, March 10-12, 2024!
I was a speaker at MMS Miami Beach, October 29-November 1, 2023
