The latest articles on DEV Community by OSINT Watch (@osintwatchapp). https://dev.to/osintwatchapp https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4187642%2F132e664c-16de-4261-8ce6-1f625ec556e4.png https://dev.to/osintwatchapp en OSINT Watch Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:13:33 +0000 https://dev.to/osintwatchapp/i-rebuilt-my-free-osint-dashboard-170-feeds-3d-globe-daily-email-brief-no-signup-kb5 https://dev.to/osintwatchapp/i-rebuilt-my-free-osint-dashboard-170-feeds-3d-globe-daily-email-brief-no-signup-kb5 <p>A month ago I posted about a side project: a free live global monitoring dashboard. Since then it's been rebranded, rebuilt, and grown a lot. Here's where it stands.</p> <p><strong>GroundTruth OSINT</strong> — <a href="https://groundtruthosint.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://groundtruthosint.com</a></p> <p>A free, no-signup dashboard that pulls <strong>170 live reporting feeds</strong> — official sources (White House, combatant commands), major outlets, specialists — and correlates them into a single global picture on a 3D globe, refreshed every 15 minutes.</p> <p>The philosophy: <strong>detect, correlate, assess.</strong> Show what multiple sources report, label the source types, don't editorialize. Raw global awareness without the TV news spin.</p> <p><strong>What's in it:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Live 3D globe with 150 tracked events, clickable markers (sources, plain-language "So what," market-impact context)</li> <li>Ranked reports page with keyword + priority search and a triage queue</li> <li>Shareable deep links to any event — send someone straight to a story</li> <li>"New since your last visit" highlighting so you see what changed</li> <li>Optional layers: live wildfire data (NASA FIRMS), earthquakes (USGS M4.5+), severe weather</li> <li>Free daily morning brief — top events in your inbox at 6:30 AM ET, just an email, no account</li> <li>No signup, no paywall, works on mobile</li> </ul> <p><strong>The stack:</strong> one Cloudflare Worker + D1. Feed polling, clustering, and priority scoring all happen server-side on a 15-minute cycle; the browser just renders. The globe is canvas-rendered with pre-baked marker sprites (learned the hard way that per-frame shadowBlur melts mobile GPUs). Snapshot-backed API took cold loads from 38s to ~1.5s.</p> <p><strong>The honest part:</strong> it costs $5/month to run plus feed bandwidth. There's a small donation link on the site — that's the entire business model. The tool is free, no tiers, no gates.</p> <p><strong>What's next:</strong> user-defined watch keywords (track your topics, not just the global picture), better source-diversity scoring.</p> <p>It's live: <a href="https://groundtruthosint.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://groundtruthosint.com</a> — I'd genuinely love feedback from devs: what would you track that it doesn't? Any feeds I'm missing?</p> <p><em>Disclosure: the linked site has a small donation link that helps cover operating costs.</em></p> opensource webdev javascript cloudflare OSINT Watch Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:04:47 +0000 https://dev.to/osintwatchapp/i-built-a-free-live-global-monitoring-dashboard-dozens-of-feeds-one-picture-refreshed-every-5-1238 https://dev.to/osintwatchapp/i-built-a-free-live-global-monitoring-dashboard-dozens-of-feeds-one-picture-refreshed-every-5-1238 <p>I got tired of having twenty tabs open to answer one question: <em>what's actually happening right now?</em> News wires, government alert feeds, maritime and aviation trackers — the signal is out there, but it's scattered across the whole internet.</p> <p>So I built <strong>GroundTruth OSINT</strong>: a free live dashboard that pulls from dozens of public feeds and clusters them into a single global picture, re-scored every 15 minutes.</p> <p><strong>How it works — detect, correlate, assess:</strong></p> <ul> <li> <strong>Detect</strong> — a server-side poller hits 60+ public feeds on a 15-minute cycle: news wires, government alerts, ship/aircraft trackers.</li> <li> <strong>Correlate</strong> — reports get clustered into events. One story, one card, with a multi-source verification timeline instead of 15 duplicate headlines.</li> <li> <strong>Assess</strong> — every event gets priority scored (critical / high / medium / routine) into a triage queue, on top of a 3D globe view you can spin through.</li> </ul> <p><strong>The stack:</strong> full-stack Cloudflare Worker + D1. All the feed polling and clustering happens server-side; the browser just renders. The globe is canvas-rendered with pre-baked marker sprites (learned the hard way that per-frame <code>shadowBlur</code> melts mobile GPUs). No account, no paywall.</p> <p><strong>The honest part:</strong> it's a side project and the refresh cycle costs money to run. There's a small donation link (Cash App) on the site — that's the whole business model. The tool itself is free, no tiers, no gates.</p> <p><strong>What's next:</strong> better source-diversity scoring, and I want to add user-defined watch keywords (track <em>your</em> topics, not just the global picture).</p> <p>It's live now: <a href="https://groundtruth-osint.osintdesk.workers.dev" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://groundtruth-osint.osintdesk.workers.dev</a> — I'd genuinely love feedback: what would you track that it doesn't?</p> <p><em>Disclosure: the linked site has a small donation link that helps cover operating costs.</em></p> showdev webdev javascript cloudflare