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dracos

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About dracos

mySociety, Theatricalia, traintimes.org.uk, etc

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    Comment #41688368

    I agree the tax-free childcare form could certainly be improved (I've even written a script to do the three-monthly reconfirmation for me, see my latest gist, though that's policy …

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    Comment #14431618

    Care to email and let me know which station you're talking about, and what the issue is? Haven't had any other mentions of this that I can see.

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    Comment #14429295

    I’ve reworded that bit, sorry, it wasn’t very clear! It is as krallja says; inlined on the very first request (so any caching headers such as ETag wouldn't help, though I do set th…

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    Comment #14429231

    I do think that credit card websites should implement card checksum, and what type of card it is (rather than asking you), if possible. I understand your points, but they do not ch…

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    Comment #14426707

    Sorry to confuse, now fixed. Think I just predate all this standardization. I did mean KB (at least, that is what DevTools uses and from where I copied the figures :) ).

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    Comment #14426661

    Yes, service workers would previously cap caching to 24 hours, see e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38843970/service-worker-... but as per the ticket mentioned there – http…

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    Comment #14426580

    Just to note, though, that you can book tickets with Trainline, which you can't with traintimes.org.uk, it does have limits :) However, Trainline charge a booking fee – https://ehe…

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    Comment #5506480

    Yes, the API returned in December 2010 and has been fine (from my PoV anyway) ever since.

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    Comment #5506455

    It's OpenStreetMap: http://www.openstreetmap.org/

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    Comment #5505589

    The code is on github ;) I only really have time to keep it running and e.g. move it to OSM, but pull requests always welcome.

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    Comment #5505582

    No-one has minded for nearly three years, and TfL are the ones providing the data :-)

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    Comment #5505579

    Thanks :-) I like to think they'd seen my original version, who knows, so don't mind my backport. Theirs was a bit snazzier, but far too empty for my liking!

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    Comment #5505577

    It's more a work of art ;-) I basically show the data I get, but I don't fully understand it all - those Northern line trains all have a 477 id, which I think may be ghosts or test…

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    Comment #5505568

    A variety of reasons, including having to change stuff anyway for Google Maps v2 deprecation, preferring OSM's open model to Google with MapMaker, preferring Leaflet, and yes, poss…

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    Comment #1448565

    Thanks :-) It would definitely be good if the map could at some point highlight disruptions, or closed stations/lines, yes (along with other things it could show, such as trains at…