paurk

Most "things to do" apps rank a place the same way at 7am on a Tuesday as at sunset on a Saturday. I wanted a tool that answers a simpler question: where is a good, quiet public spot to be *right now* — given the light, the weather and how far I feel like walking.

• A static React + TypeScript app that scores 604 curated public spots across 44 cities by period of day, live weather, a chosen vibe and walking distance, and explains every top pick in one line.
• A custom three.js globe with dot-matrix land sampled from world-atlas at build time and a real day/night terminator refreshed every minute.
• A d3-geo 2D fallback for devices without WebGL, so the app never shows a blank hero.
• On-device sunrise, sunset and golden-hour math with SunCalc, and keyless forecasts from Open-Meteo.

• Fully client-side by design: no backend, map tiles or API keys means nothing to run, nothing to leak and nothing to pay for.
• The globe engine and per-city content are deferred until needed, holding the first load to 170 KB gzipped.
• Ranking, geo and sun-time logic are pure functions covered by Vitest; a headless-Chromium check enforces 44 px tap targets on mobile.

• Live at paurk.com, deployed on Cloudflare Pages with builds on every push.
• 170 KB gzipped first load with a WebGL globe on the page.
• Every ranking decision is explainable in a single sentence in the UI.

• Let people submit spots with a lightweight review queue.
• Cache the last forecast so the app still ranks sensibly offline.
• Add a "walk there" route preview using on-device routing data.