Hi all,

In the spirit of this list's rejuvenation, I thought I'd share a fun
project I did recently with ~team.

For context: I use a flip-phone (it's much less distracting than a
smartphone), so I cannot use an app or browser to check the weather when
getting dressed every morning. And I can't call NOAA to get the weather
because the dial-a-forecast number for my state is out of service.

So, I made a script that texts me the weather and made a cronjob to run
that every morning. The script was surprisingly simple:

        #!/bin/sh

        WEATHER="/tmp/$(uuidgen)"

        curl --silent https://wttr.in/<LOCATION>.png?1Fqn > "$WEATHER"
        mutt -a "$WEATHER" -- 8005551234@mms-gateway.example
        rm "$WEATHER"

I used wttr.in here because its api is increadibly simple (it's
literally the same thing as its UI). This does mean, though, that I had
to send it as an image because wttr returns formatted text that wraps
horrible.

Many cell providers have an email to SMS/MMS gateway, so it was really
easy to send a text; it should be easy to find this via a search engine.
I also used mutt here instead of something POSIXly correct to make
attachments simpler — this is just a hack, after all.

Cheers,
--
DJ Chase (~u9000)
They, Them, Theirs