Watchedsky

Hi Folks. I've been silent for a bit. I had some hardware failures and some issues with not having any time. Well now I have some of the latter and I'm looking to alleviate some of the former. Watch this space -- I've learned a lot and I'm going to be back with a new way of doing things soon.

There have been some obvious persistent issues with the service including hardware issues and because of that the feed is going to be offline indefinitely while I procure more hardware and fix things. But this is not my job and my actual job is very busy and I have a baby. I’m gonna try my hardest.

Hey there 👋🏻

I saved your watch ID, so you should be able to see your updated feed now. If you want, you can delete your skeet and I won't mind. Just @ me or reply again to change your watch ID!

Hey there 👋🏻

I saved your watch ID, so you should be able to see your updated feed now. If you want, you can delete your skeet and I won't mind. Just @ me or reply again to change your watch ID!

Hey there 👋🏻

I saved your watch ID, so you should be able to see your updated feed now. If you want, you can delete your skeet and I won't mind. Just @ me or reply again to change your watch ID!

Hey there 👋🏻

I saved your watch ID, so you should be able to see your updated feed now. If you want, you can delete your skeet and I won't mind. Just @ me or reply again to change your watch ID!

There’s an issue right now that I haven’t had time to fix yet. I’m hoping have time next week.

Hey there 👋🏻

I saved your watch ID, so you should be able to see your updated feed now. If you want, you can delete your skeet and I won't mind. Just @ me or reply again to change your watch ID!

As always this system will be open source so when I tell you that the only thing that I will be capturing is your DID, which is public, you can verify it yourself. Transparency is important to me.

If you have had trouble using watchedsky lately, I’m truly sorry. I’m going to convert the system to using Bluesky’s oAuth mechanism asap, so you will log in to the site and save your watch id that way. No saving it in your profile or sending a message.

It’s become clear that the current method of collecting data from users who want to use the feed is too fragile for a production level system and the engineer in me cannot cotton that any longer. Between persistent little bugs in the software to changes in firehose format, I can’t keep this up. 1/

@skeetstats.xyz !optin

I need to add a buttload of documentation and move my CI to GitHub Actions before I can reliably start asking for help 😂

Source is in my profile! I know what is up, just gotta fix it 😂

Sorry I missed all these! You can just reply to this message or @ me in general with that ID (including the emoji at the front) and I'll save it, you don't have to worry about the profiles. I need to have some time to work on this

I'll take a look later. I appreciate the report!

I’ll take a look a bit later. Thanks for troubleshooting with me

There’s a few of those. Which one are you getting?

Try going to bsky.app/profile/watc... ... loading it in your profile doesn't have a great user experience. If you get stuff, you are good to go.

Does bsky.app/profile/watc... work for you?

oh, that seems ... wrong. I'll look into that!

Maybe, but there's another existing bug where the reply might not happen. Can you add it again into your profile (I don't see it there now), I can take a look manually.

I see the feeds have pooped the bed but I’m about to get on a plane I’ll look later

I'll take a look a bit later!

Hi! I'm sorry it didn't work for you. Did something specific happen?

I guess I have to say this now: watchedsky will continue to run as long as I can get real data from NOAA for free. If it becomes paid as has been suggested through things like project 2025, I’m going to have a hard time paying for something I already paid for via my tax $ even if I can afford it.

The text is directly from the National Weather Service, and the area doesn't always have the state info attached; often it's just a set of coordinates. The bot has skeeted 80k alerts in the 2ish months it's been operating, I can't add state info to each one.

That's why the bot's profile says "don't follow me, use the feed" ... Go to watchedsky.social and get a watch ID, then copy the value (with the emoji, use the button on the site), and @ me and it'll set you up in the system and you can follow the feed.

I'm not the bot, I'm the real boy. Sorry my bot didn't respond to you. I verified that your info got saved!

Shameless self promotion: watchedsky.social go there, get a watch id, and get a feed just for you