About
I ride. I also write code.
This isn't a product. It's a page I wanted for myself, then kept around because a few people I ride with started using it too.
Why I made it
Bad weather in a car is annoying. On a bike it decides whether your hands go numb, whether you enjoy the ride, and sometimes whether you stay upright.
I don't care about a 10-day forecast or pollen. I want to know if it's going to rain in the next few hours, how hard the wind is, and if it's cold enough that I'll regret leaving in a hoodie.
The score is my attempt to weight those things. It's not gospel. I ignore it when I already know I'm going. It just beats doing the math half asleep.
When I actually open it
- Morning, before coffee is gone
- Bike day or car day. That's the whole question.
- When the thermometer lies
- 45 degrees is fine in the driveway. It is not fine at 70 mph. The wind chill chart is from the first version because I kept wanting it.
- When the afternoon looks worse
- Fine at 9, rain at 3. I leave earlier. That's what the hourly row is for.
- When the roads are the problem
- Weather can be perfect and the interstate can still be a parking lot. I check traffic before I commit.
How it got here
Years ago. I was teaching myself web development and wanted something I would actually use. I kept opening separate apps before a ride, so I put the parts I cared about on one page.
v1 was Node, Express, and Pug. It sat on GitHub for a long time. Clunky, but I used it.
This version is the same idea, rebuilt. The score is new. The traffic map stays closed until I ask for it.