Hey there ๐๐ป Been spending the last few weeks building something. A small open-source tool for creating interactive globes and maps for websites.
Built because I needed it for a few projects and couldnโt find exactly what I wanted.
NYC summers hate your weekends.
I analyzed 3 years of Central Park rain data to see if the feeling was real.
It was.
27 of 38 summer weekends had measurable rain.
Thatโs 71%.
Friday was the rainiest day of the week, with rain on 43.6% of summer Fridays. Basically worse than a coin flip for your evening plans.
Sunday had the highest rainfall volume of any day, averaging 0.17 inches. It may not rain every Sunday, but when it does, it commits.
Thursday was objectively the best day to be outside in NYC: lowest precipitation, clearest skies, least weekend-related misery.
The wildest stat:
70.8% of rainy Sundays were preceded by a gross Friday or Saturday.
The weekend basically telegraphs its own downfall.
I built a full dashboard using NWS Central Park data with every weekend tracked and every raindrop counted:
Started a new design experiment. Probably the most personal thing Iโll ever work on.
My grandma Nelly kept a diary from her teenage years until the day she passed. Stories about me as a kid, poems she loved, recipes, music, movies, pieces of a whole life.
The first two experiments I started:
A typeface built from her handwriting. Working name: Nelly.
And the slow work of restoring every photo tucked between the pages.