Build in the open
Sources & acknowledgments
Record outside sources and assistance here so someone using your site can understand how it was made.
Data
- National Weather Service API for forecast data.
- Zippopotam.us for converting U.S. ZIP codes to coordinates.
Starter code
- The original Svelte weather starter was created by Tom Hinkle with GPT-5 assistance.
- The 2026–2027 vanilla JavaScript starter, assignment guide, and agent instructions were revised by Tom Hinkle in conversation with OpenAI Codex.
- OpenAI Codex reset stale location data and forecast buttons, corrected status and error messages, and updated the walkthrough to match Tom Hinkle's simplified button handlers. Codex checked lookup failures and successful retries with simulated API responses.
My sources and AI use
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition made into a promise by Google Gemini.
The full code can be found on my Github