FarPost

A newspaper for the places you are not standing in

Most weather apps are about where you are. This one is about where your people are. A household pins the places that matter now, and FarPost puts the weather, the hazards and the news for each of them on one page in one order.

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Overview

What it does when it cannot find out.

An app that asks one weather service, gets a timeout, and shows an empty risks section has just told somebody there are no warnings. It has no idea whether there are warnings. Those two states look identical and mean opposite things, so this app cannot produce one without the other.

Every section carries the legs it walked. A section whose sources all failed says not checked, rather than showing an empty space that reads as an all-clear.

The same goes for age. A forecast fetched successfully, at 200, carrying an issuance from twenty hours ago is a failed check wearing a success. Freshness is judged per kind against the source’s own timestamp, and a source that publishes no timestamp is treated as stale rather than as current.

How

The rules it keeps.

A silent source is not an all-clear
Every section carries the legs it walked. If they all failed it says not checked, because an empty risks panel and a checked-and-clear one must never look the same.
Date the incident, not the headline
A story with no resolved publication date is never printed. An undated story is not an old one, it is an unchecked one, and a nine-month-old headline naming your own street is one careless rendering away from being tonight’s road closure.
Weather is orientation, risks are risks
The top of the page says the temperature and the chance of rain and nothing about danger. Everything that is a danger is one section down. A page that shouts every morning is a page nobody reads on the morning it should.
Old places do not haunt you
A pin can be active, live only for the length of a trip, go quiet except for emergencies, be archived, or be deleted outright.
Status

In development.

The API and the rules above are built and the app runs locally. Mind Tether is not deployed yet and cannot register a relying party, so sign-in takes the local path until it can.

Handling of data is covered in the Locke Werks Privacy Policy. For access, or a conversation about what it would take to use this, write to nyx@lockewerks.com.