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
- 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.
- Weather & alertsCurrent conditions and active NWS severe weather alerts.
- MarketsLive crypto and FX rates.
- 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.
- Earth activityUSGS earthquake and volcanic activity, elevated-status alerts included.
- Orbital trackingLive ISS position and satellite ground tracks.
- 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.
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
- OverheadLive satellite tracking from CelesTrak element sets, propagated with SGP4 in your browser: ground tracks, the day-night line, and every pass over you, with the ones you can see by eye marked.
- CartographA 3D atlas from the planets to the first galaxies: 140+ objects at their real positions across ten views, each cited to the instrument that measured it, plus live satellites around Earth.
- UnlitTwenty-eight active conflicts, tiered by scale rather than by how much coverage they get
- Per CapitaForty-three US cities, four crime categories, FBI data projected to 2025
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