by Steve Gifford | Jul 17, 2024 | Boxer, Terrier
Most weather practitioners have a degree in meteorology, atmospheric science, or something similar. Sales, marketing, and even software developers often share that background. However, that’s not how I got into weather app development. Years ago, my company at...
by Steve Gifford | Jul 10, 2024 | Data
The evolution of cloud computing is truly remarkable, especially for those who’ve been in the field for a while. I recall the days of naming individual servers, monkey species were my favorite, and meticulously maintaining hardware. Now, with technologies like...
by Steve Gifford | Jun 27, 2024 | Data, Terrier
At Wet Dog Weather, we have our own web and mobile display technology called Terrier. It’s crazy good, and we love it! However, we understand that sometimes you need to support the old way of doing things, which is why we also support traditional web mapping...
by Steve Gifford | Jun 20, 2024 | Terrier
At Wet Dog Weather, we’ve primarily dealt with gridded models and observed data, but we’re now expanding our focus to include weather alerts. Our current data sources include GFS, HRRR, RTMA, and high-resolution models provided by and for our customers. We...
by Steve Gifford | Jun 12, 2024 | MapLibre, Terrier
I was recently asked how to do Stamen Watercolor in MapLibre at the State of the Map in Salt Lake City after a talk about Stadia & Stamen’s recent revival of the old Stamen styles. Except Watercolor. There are ways you could hack it at the app level, but a...