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ashfn

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About ashfn

Asher Falcon, UK https://ashfn.com

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    Comment #48515661

    > go to website, have to login > login, have to pay $7 to even view the product is this satire

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    Comment #48409453

    Something must be wrong, it's showing github as up!

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    Comment #47094570

    Thanks, it's just raw js canvas and msgpack on the api to use less bandwidth

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    Comment #47086982

    Thank you so much

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    Comment #47086488

    Hi everyone, I built cspend.uk which is a free site that combines over 24 million published payments from all London boroughs and councils into one fast, searchable database. You c…

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    Comment #46444207

    Updated the title it was a bit misleading!

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    Show HN: I made islechat, like Slack but in the terminal over SSH

    You can try it out with ` ssh username@isle.chat ` Enter a password to use on first join. It features a slack/discord style interface with channels on the left and users on the rig…

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    Comment #45788920

    Potentially using the live arrivals APIs and seeing when its right now, not 100% it would work but might be worth a shot

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    Comment #45786065

    Im thinking it might be better to revisit the project and analyse long term patterns in bus arrivals

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    Comment #45784380

    I used this exact API extensively for both buses and tubes :)

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    Comment #45783792

    I tried a route from a London tube station to Newcastle train station and it found one on the frontend for the tool so I think it may support national rail

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    Comment #45783665

    It looks like TFL's journey planner API has the ability to do some of these national rail trips, only tested a few though

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    Comment #44638247

    That sounds very interesting, I'll look into it thanks :)

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    Comment #44638233

    Yeah that would make an interesting addition. I was thinking about error correction so if you swapped two cards it would be okay but was struggling with how it would work, but I th…

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    Comment #44605181

    Hey all, I found a cool way to convert text into a specific order of a deck of playing cards. I detailed the instructions of how it works in the blog post but a brief overview woul…

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