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What shipped this spring: five countries and a grid endpoint
A build-in-public roundup. May and June were mostly coverage, and the plumbing that made coverage cheap. Here is the honest list - including the things that did not ship.
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CategoryWhat shipped recently - monthly summaries of API, pipeline and site changes.
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You can now see the forecast, not just fetch it
Convek has always been an API - JSON in, JSON out. The new interactive map and route examples at /explore render the same WRF fields as a proper soaring map: thermals, cloudbase, day rating, convergence, and animated surface wind over a real basemap.
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Pruning the worker: how four cycles a day stay off a disk-full alert
Each WRF cycle leaves behind a timestamped working directory worth a few gigabytes. Multiplied by four cycles a day, the disk fills in a fortnight. Here is the small retention helper that keeps the live worker tidy without losing benchmark scratch.
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Grid forecasts are live
Convek now serves grid field slices through /v1/grid, so apps, club pages, and hardware teams can build real map layers without spamming point requests.