ashfn

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by ashfn 3mo ago
> go to website, have to login > login, have to pay $7 to even view the product is this satire
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by ashfn 3mo ago
Something must be wrong, it's showing github as up!
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by ashfn 7mo ago
Thanks, it's just raw js canvas and msgpack on the api to use less bandwidth
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by ashfn 7mo ago
Thank you so much
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by ashfn 7mo ago
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 can search by supplier, description, amount, date, borough, e
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Show HN: Searchable aggregator of 24M London council spending transactions(cspend.uk)
4 points by ashfn 7mo ago|5 comments
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by ashfn 9mo ago
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
2 points by ashfn 9mo ago|2 comments
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by ashfn 11mo ago
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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by ashfn 11mo ago
Im thinking it might be better to revisit the project and analyse long term patterns in bus arrivals
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Rendering Conways Game of Life with Braille(asherfalcon.com)
2 points by ashfn 11mo ago|0 comments
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by ashfn 11mo ago
I used this exact API extensively for both buses and tubes :)
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by ashfn 11mo ago
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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by ashfn 11mo ago
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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I built my own CityMapper(asherfalcon.com)
155 points by ashfn 11mo ago|21 comments
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by ashfn 1y ago
That sounds very interesting, I'll look into it thanks :)
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by ashfn 1y ago
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 think it would be quite fun to add :)
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by ashfn 1y ago
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 would be that it uses Lehmer codes which allow you to uniquely i
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Hiding messages in a deck playing cards(asherfalcon.com)
122 points by ashfn 1y ago|39 comments
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Hiding Images in DNS Records(asherfalcon.com)
2 points by ashfn 1y ago|0 comments
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by ashfn 2y ago
Its relatively straightforward to host a nextjs app in a docker container and route it with nginx and cloudflare, but you probably wont get as good uptime
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by ashfn 2y ago
You can use copernicus satellites for free which ive found generally have at least 5 or so pictures each month but the resolution isnt that high (>10M i think)
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I wrote a super simple script for redeploying Docker-compose files to servers(asherfalcon.com)
1 points by ashfn 2y ago|0 comments
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by ashfn 2y ago
safari iOS
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by ashfn 2y ago
Really like the UI for scrolling through the suggested books, although it does act a little bit buggy on mobile occasionally
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by ashfn 2y ago
Yeah it's really annoying, and even if your app is oerfectly fine apparently their process for getting it unlocked from the limited developer mode takes an unholy amount of time.
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I built a game then realized it's banned by Spotify(github.com)
3 points by ashfn 2y ago|2 comments
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Netflix filmmaker makes $27M investing film budget on dogecoin(ign.com)
3 points by ashfn 3y ago|3 comments