In case you were wondering, I switched the free updates from monthly to quarterly. Likewise the members updates switched from weekly to monthly. Main reason was that it was too repetitive to do the member update every week.
Last Quarter
For Rain Alarm there have been various radar data updates on the server side and finally the grey background issue for the Android app was fixed. It was hard to find the root cause for this and it turned out to be something really trivial. Also I'm in the process of adding a new country to the app and the main work is already done. I hope to release it in a week or two and for news you might want to check Rain Alarm's twitter page.
I also spent more time on 2 deep learning ideas for Rain Alarm. One is about making the alarms more reliable and is working quite well. Before I include this in the product, I want to check if I can take this idea one step further to add additional data to the alarm, but will need more time for this. The second idea is about filtering the origin radar data better for false positives. For now I'm still labeling training data to gather enough examples to make deep learning feasible for this problem.
Last but not least, there was a server issue on the 1st of September that was caused by an overload. I quickly fixed this by adding another server and in the meantime I found and fixed the two root causes.
Severe Weather saw various updates to the data on the server side and also finally data is back up-to-date for Portugal again.
I also spent a significant amount of time turning my "offline weather app" idea into a minimum viable product, but struggle with perfectionism. So still some work to do before it will be ready.
Other than that
My running training went well and I had my first real race in July. It went quite well and provided more motivation to continue. To be honest, that motivation is faded by now and I'm looking forward to finally finish my training plan which culminates in a mountain marathon this Saturday. It's the same one I ran last year in October, but this time as an organized race and not as a solo adventure. I'd say I'm well prepared and hope to reach the goal time I'm aiming for. Fingers crossed!
What else is new? I'm fully vaccinated since 3 months, our beloved cat almost died but made an amazing recovery, and I'm back in a co-working space. Also so far I didn't have a real vacation yet this year (except for weekend trips) and hope to make up for that soon.
After the Stubai K20 race, that ended on top of a glacier in Austria