Original software publication date: 01/23/2026
Current version: 0.1
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Are you looking for a weather application that's a little snazzier than the competition? Well, look no further than SNAZZY WEATHER. It's an application mainly designed for classic Mac OS operating systems (probably like System 7 - Mac OS 9.2). Made using the lovely REALbasic software on my own dear PowerBook Pismo :,)
USAGE: download the program, run it on your favorite Mac or Mac emulator running something around System 7 through Mac OS 9, press download to fetch weather data and click refresh to load the data. (If you try it, let me know how it works and what OS/machine you're using!)
As with everything on my website here, the original code, content and graphics of this program are licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.
v0.1 - Take this "proof of concept" kinda version for a whirl. It only downloads weather data from one hard-coded location right now. This is largely just a pet project, so if you're dying to get this to display weather for your own location right now, I invite you to crack open the project files and change some stuff around for yourself. This is the most fun I've had on a computer in some time, figuring this out!
v0.1 Jank Notes: Currently the weather data is downloaded to a file called SnazzyWeatherData.txt, which the program expects to be in the same folder. If you want to change the back-end in some form, currently the contents of this data file contains one value per line: high for the current day, wind speed, low for the current day, high for the next day, low for the next day. |
I had an itch to make software for my old Mac and found REALbasic. It's a lot of fun to use! Thought it would be a fun challenge to make an app that connected to the internet too, and here's the result. My fascination with weather data continues lol.
If you want to make your own back-end for this or some other weather program, go check out the NOAA'S weather API. It's very well-documented and free to use for dinky little projects like this. And it's pretty darn easy to interface with - my back-end is just using curl, sed and grep to cut the data down to something super small for this program to download. So all my back-end is is simply a bash script that's set to run every morning to get the day's data from the NOAA API. This program is able to download that data without any HTTPS-related issues due to me hosting this website over HTTP also (http://old.jojo2k.com), so this program works with very little fuss on older machines.
In accord with my thoughts on generative AI use, no gen AI was used in the making of this software :) I recommend getting your hands dirty with your computers like this! It's surely a good mental exercise, helps you learn about computers and gives nerds like us something slightly more productive to do in our free time. (This back-end kind of stuff allows me to say honestly that I have Linux experience on my resume, haha.)
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