MENTIFABERThe workshop · drawn at night
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MF-03·01
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Anders
Date
28.10.2026
Fig. 1 · Vigil, on the bench: power it on to run it hereMF-03·01

01Why it exists

One screen, always watching

The information that actually matters day to day — is a storm coming, did the market move, is anything seismic or volcanic worth paying attention to, where's the ISS, what's happening globally — lives scattered across a dozen different sites and apps. Vigil is a single personal dashboard that pulls the live, public feeds worth checking into one place.

02Parts list

  1. Live air trafficEvery aircraft broadcasting a position worldwide, moving smoothly on its own map and the globe — tap one for its route, photo and live numbers, find any flight by callsign, and watch for emergency squawks and military traffic.
  2. Weather & alertsCurrent conditions and active NWS severe weather alerts.
  3. MarketsLive crypto and FX rates.
  4. Space weatherNOAA's R/S/G storm scales, solar wind and magnetic field with 24-hour charts, X-ray flares, the 3-day Kp forecast, and NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
  5. Earth activityUSGS earthquake and volcanic activity, elevated-status alerts included.
  6. Orbital trackingLive ISS position and satellite ground tracks.
  7. Global conflictViolence reported in world news over the last two hours, read from GDELT's 15-minute event stream and mapped by place.

03Instruments

04Construction

Built on

Vanilla JS pulling directly from public sources — Open-Meteo, CoinGecko, Frankfurter, NOAA, USGS, NASA, weather.gov, wheretheiss.at, GDELT. The few that a browser isn't allowed to read (OpenSky and the ADS-B receiver networks, GDELT's event files, NOAA's large solar-wind files) go through a small owner-only relay on mentifaber.org that trims and briefly caches them and stores nothing else.

Vanilla JSPublic APIsOwner-only relayNo tracking

05Tolerances

This is a personal dashboard, not an early-warning system — treat every feed as informational, not authoritative, and go to the source (NWS, USGS, NOAA directly) for anything that actually matters in the moment. The dashboard itself is encrypted (AES-256, key derived from the operator name and access code) — without them the page is unreadable ciphertext, even in the source.

what it is not, said plainly

06Inscription

A watch kept on the world, one feed at a time.

07The same room