From 5d5a124e1421ff9f8b47748b8acd951584d33080 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nathaniel Waisbrot Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:25:38 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] rewrite the intro paragraph with Geoff suggestions --- README.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0a2aaec..ee5bf08 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ # birdweather_daily_email +I got a brace of [BirdWeather](https://app.birdweather.com) PUCs for myself and family members. Rather than checking stations regularly, I thought it'd be nice to get a daily digest email of what birds appeared: + ![example email](/img/birds-email-1.png "Example email sent by the program") -A personal project for sending a daily summary of the birds whose calls were identified by my stations on [BirdWeather](https://app.birdweather.com). And also learning some basic Go. +The email goes out to all the family bird-listeners summarizing what birds were active yesterday at the different stations. I can see my parents home in the mountains trail behind my sea-level place in winter bird activity, due to colder temperatures. + +This project also serves as a vehicle for teaching myself programming in Go. That's the reason for the language selection. ## Usage