jbreckmckye 3 days ago

I love the sunlight and dread the long, dark winter evenings of Northern Europe. I often look up sunrise / sunset times and count off the days until the darkness is gone.

Now I've written a terminal app for this (Mac/Linux)

Features: a colorful summary of daylight times for your location; projected change over the coming days; handles NO_COLOR and a ---short flag if you dislike the output format.

The location is IP-based but you can override this if you're on a VPN. Just create a terminal alias with the --loc flag. The app supports areas in the arctic / antarctic circle too.

Check our the repository for a preview and instructions on how you can install it with Homebrew.

(There is a Windows build but it's not yet tested)

  • japaget 8 hours ago

    Windows build works fine (Windows 10 Professional x64 22H2).

rrr_oh_man 6 hours ago

Great looking app!!

I immediately checked how you do location lookups:

> IP lookup is powered by https://ipinfo.io. They provide a good service so please don't spam requests.

There was a thread about them recently — the scale of their operation was very surprising.

thenthenthen 3 hours ago

Cool! Can we use the sky hue as Terminal background or overal “theme”?