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Building out a housing heatmap of England and Wales (Scotland and Northern Ireland publish housing data differently, working on getting them integrated! https://housepricedashboard…

Every now and again someone will open a "American Diner" here in London, then have normal opening times and serve basically the same food every pub serves, only with more milkshake…

I recently visited my brother in Spokane (we're British, he moved out there a few years ago) and we went to Frank's Diner, still in it's original 1906 railcar. Not my first diner e…

Europe is a gigantic manufacturer of vast quantities of goods. It has not deindustrialised at all.

Two choropleth map projects I've wanted to make for a while: https://housepricedashboard.co.uk - shows a visualisation of house prices in England and Wales since the 90s, with filt…

Already a feature, you can switch between nominal or inflation adjusted in the Change View panel - https://housepricedashboard.co.uk/?tab=change&start=2014&end...

Ah shoot, it's not .com, it's .co.uk. So https://housepricedashboard.co.uk .

I actually wrote a webapp to show this, check it out - https://housepricedashboard.co.uk/ London house prices are falling quite a lot in real terms.

https://rowanajmarshall.co.uk . There's a couple fun stuff in there, including some recipes I like, links to stuff I wrote, and a live sleep meter.

I've been practicing with Claude Code and creating a webapp I wished exists every time I've moved house - https://housepricedashboard.co.uk I've spent a lot of time combing through…

As much as I appreciate the difference between literal infinity and consumers' demand for software, there's just so much bad software out there waiting to be improved that I can't …

I think the downside is the developers who love the action of coding managed to accomplish several things at once - they got to code, and create things, and get paid lots for doing…

They're pretty extraordinary, but funny thing is the expensive bits of London (central, west, and bits of north) have fallen the most in real terms over the last decade!

Ach, sorry! iOS is the one common platform I don't have easy access to.

Then you should also look at Wayve (self-driving cars, $1 billion Series C), Lighthouse (travel and rental data, $370 million Series C), Highview Power (novel energy storage, £300 …

> Good luck getting a farm-tech startup funded, no-one will take a punt. There are so, so many examples of British agtech companies getting funded: https://www.lettusgrow.com/blog/…

> There was not only no dishwasher, there was literally no space for a dishwasher. This is just London, out of the 8 years I've spent here, 3 of them were spent with a dishwasher. …

I run a Mistral model on my phone!

> Replacing blue collar workers for robots hasn't been super duper great. That's just not true. Tractors, combine harvesters, dishwashers washing machines, excavators, we've repeat…