Overview

After realising that I had signed up for one too many newsletters, I decided to take matters in my own hands and forgo the newsletter slop. I wanted one place that gave me everything I needed to know before I even got out of bed. So I built WorldMonitor, a multi-page intelligence dashboard that pulls live data from over 25 sources and renders it all in the browser. It covers world events, financial markets, tech and cybersecurity news, and even my MSU Spartans schedule. The whole thing runs on a cron job from a ThinkPad server, and every morning at 7:30 it sends me a formatted briefing through Telegram, with top headlines clustered by urgency, a market snapshot with futures, local weather with UV and air quality, and what happened on this day in history. I can also message the bot on-demand and get a fresh briefing whenever I want.

Key Features

• Live geopolitical event map with earthquakes, natural disasters, and conflicts
• Financial dashboard with indices, futures, sectors, crypto, and the Fear & Greed Index
• Tech feed with GitHub trending, HuggingFace models, and critical CVEs
• Morning briefing sent via Telegram with clustered headlines and local weather
• 25+ data sources with API access

Tech Stack

• Python
• Leaflet.js and Chart.js
• Telegram Bot API
• RSS feed aggregation with feedparser
• Yahoo Finance via yfinance