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Scootercam’s new Sunset Forecaster

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For generations, residents and visitors along Lake Michigan’s storied shoreline have gathered at the water’s edge, craning their necks and crossing their fingers, wondering if tonight’s sunset would erupt into glory or fade into mediocrity – in human terms, will it slap, or flop? At long last, that restless guesswork is over. Scootercam.net, the irreverent … Read more

Release notes 9/25/25

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All processing is backend: Week-Ahead widget With this version: No front-end data processing! All Processing is done every 2 minutes in the background; small json files deliver the 20 or so datapoints. This is a huge efficiency gain all but invisible to the user. A new widget shows the next 7 days’ icons, expected conditions, … Read more

Data efficiency – APIs

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A ton of data is collected, sifted, and sorted for Scootercam, and in fact very little of that data ever gets to the screen. Some of that is due to how the data is packaged by weather data mega-store Visual Crossing. A lot involves how and where I manage the data once it is received. … Read more

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