All right, a new plugin. Shiny!
Cynical Weather is basically two plugins held together by a common theme, the external environment of your house.
One (Orientation devices) simply tells you where the Sun is. I use that to tell my drapes to close when the Sun shines in their windows (and open again when it moves on). That was a fun exercise in celestial mechanics.
The other is a Dark Sky interface. Dark Sky offers "hyperlocal" weather - right now, down to the mile. It's the data that drives Apps like "Check The Weather" and, well, "Dark Sky." They offer an API and the plugin taps into that. The current version basically just gets you the current weather. I'm sure you'll let me know what much more awesome functionality I could add.
Note that Dark Sky requires that (each of) you get an "API key" from them. That's so they can distinguish people in order to find and cut off abusers of their (free) service. As far as I know, these are good guys and they're on the level and offering a great service instead of hoarding their code for their own Apps.
And yes, that was the one that made me break down and write the SSL interface that a few of you have already found useful.
Cheers
-- perry