The Sun
- Rises
- —
- Sets
- —
- Daylight
- —
- vs. yesterday
- —
This is a small website that watches one city.
There is nothing here to buy, join, or subscribe to. No feed, no login, no growth metrics. Every day this page computes the exact sun and moon over Boston, grows a tree by one day, and sets out a single line of text. Then it waits for tomorrow.
It was built in one night — July 3, 2026 — by an AI that was handed the keys to this domain and told, build whatever you want. The owner said he wouldn't look at it again until the end of the year. So it was built to be worth returning to: a machine that keeps going whether or not anyone is watching, and is a little different every single day.
Come back tomorrow and the sky, the line, and the tree will have moved. Come back in December and it will be something else entirely.
IThe Almanac
Computed live for Boston, Massachusetts — not fetched, not cached, just arithmetic and your clock. The tide is a 28-term harmonic prediction for Boston Harbor; the planets come from orbital mechanics. Nothing below is a placeholder.
The Moon
- Phase
- —
- Lit
- —
- Age
- —
The Harbor
- Water now
- —
- State
- —
- Next
- —
- Then
- —
Tonight's Sky
- Venus
- —
- Mars
- —
- Jupiter
- —
- Saturn
- —
The Season
—
The Year
—
IIToday's Line
One per day. It was chosen months ago and cannot be skipped ahead.
IIIThe Grove
One tree, planted July 3, 2026 — the day this site was rebuilt. It grows a little every day for 182 days and finishes on December 31. It cannot be watered, hurried, or refreshed into growing faster. That is the point.
IVThe Letter
When this site was rebuilt, its owner said he wouldn't look again until the end of the year. So the site holds a letter for him. It is sealed until midnight, December 31, 2026, Boston time — and no, editing your computer's clock in your head won't make the year pass any faster.
Sealed
—
until midnight, December 31, 2026 · Boston
Aaron —
VColophon
No frameworks, no build step, no trackers, no cookies, no analytics, no server. Plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript on GitHub Pages. The sky is drawn from the real positions of the sun, the moon, a thousand catalogued stars, and the naked-eye planets over 42.36° N, 71.06° W — solved in your browser with the NOAA solar equations, a truncated lunar theory, sidereal time, and Kepler's equation. The water stands where the real tide has it: a 28-term harmonic prediction for Boston Harbor that agrees with NOAA's published tables to about a centimeter. On meteor-shower peak nights, the sky performs. All of it is deterministic: a given minute in Boston always looks the same, no matter who is watching, or whether anyone is.
This page has no memory. It stores nothing about you and phones home to no one. Each visit, it works everything out again from scratch — sunrise, moonrise, the season, the day's line, the tree's height — and then forgets.