Tag: BumpySkies

• BumpySkies is alive (December 20, 2025)

  Using new tools, information, and energies to resume work on a software project I thought I had walked away from six years ago.

• BumpySkies is my masterpiece, alas (October 25, 2019)

  Three years ago I thought this project was my future. I have let that dream go.

• I spoke about BumpySkies at TPC 2017 (July 6, 2017)

  I presented BumpySkies: A Passion-Project Postmortem at The Perl Conference 2017 in Alexandria, Virginia last month. It remixes my!!Con 2017 talk from May, adding five minutes of newer stuff at either end. In this 20-minute talk I tell more or less the complete tale of how I spent much of 2016 making BumpySkies, a commercial-flight turbulence forecaster. While it works just as I’d hoped, I kind of dunno what to do next with it — and the increasingly anti-scientific stance of the country that provides its data gives me concerns for its longevity that I didn’t have when I began the project.

• Announcing BumpySkies (December 8, 2016)

  A full year after starting work on it, I’ve launched BumpySkies, a free, web-based turbulence forecast tool for most any upcoming flight within the continental United States*. I’ve been talking about writing a book for my fellow nervous fliers for some time, but it turns out that this is what I had in me instead: an interactive tool to help both them and me manage our fears.