Joel Heaps

These are projects I’m working on, if only occasionally:

KMEY.info

KMEY.info is a simple weather dashboard for my local airport, optimized to load over a slow connection. MEY, or James Whiting Memorial Field of Mapleton, IA, doesn’t have automatic weather observation equipment like other small airports, and has only a basic internet connectivity. This page scrapes and pre-processes local weather data and presents a little landing page for airport info.

SPC Notifier

SPC Notifier is a simple little Python app that can send alerts about forecast discussions posted by NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center. Right now Discord is my chosen notification target.

Windwise.app

Windwise.app is a simple route optimizer for US flights in small airplanes. This site will be up and down as I experiment with data sources and route-finding algorithms. One early realization is that for most short flights (within a couple hundred miles), wind patterns aren’t varied enough to significantly impact flight time – direct flights are nearly always quickest. I might focus more on selecting ideal altitudes for cross-country flights.

Other projects