robotmay

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by robotmay 14y ago
Thanks for the response! I've mentioned in another comment that the green seems to vary wildly on different displays, so I'm looking into improvements I can make there.
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by robotmay 14y ago
I toyed with the idea of making it responsive when I first built the layout but opted for a fixed design to save on time. It's a feature I'd really like to get into the site soon as I've already felt the pain of navigating it on my own phon
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by robotmay 14y ago
I'm using Flickr's API for getting photos at the moment (it's actually a really good API), and I'd definitely like to give people a more visual way of browsing the places.
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by robotmay 14y ago
1/2: This is something I really want to implement, as finding family days out is one of my main goals. 3: In the works! 4: I've had this suggestion before and I think it'd be a great feature; I'm looking into it :D Thanks for the feedback!
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by robotmay 14y ago
It seems to vary wildly depending on monitors; on my Mac it's bright grass-green, on my desktop it seems to be more of a muted snot. It's on my list of things to fix!
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by robotmay 14y ago
Does it not work anywhere or in one specific area? I'll take a look into it straight away :)
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by robotmay 14y ago
Ooh, I've not seen Nerdy Day Trips before; I'll have to get in touch and see if they have an API (probably a better chance than the others I've been working on). Location data like that would be very useful (and I'd be very grateful for it)
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by robotmay 14y ago
I always forget how much there is in Bristol; this (and any other city tourist sites people recommend) will go in my queue to pull data from!
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by robotmay 14y ago
Do you know which organisation runs it? I have a feeling that I'm missing a number of English Heritage properties, which I'm working on.
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by robotmay 14y ago
You should have seen the inverse ;) I'm constantly playing with the design and I've also found it can be a bit bright; I'll be looking to refine it soon.
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by robotmay 14y ago
Gah, I thought I'd fixed all those odd locations. I'm using Nomanatim for geocoding, which seems to pick up a lot of the 'new world' locations rather than the originals - I'll go through them all again later and fix the wrong ones!
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by robotmay 14y ago
Historic Scotland is the next source I'll be pulling in; I was up in Stirling last year and there's some seriously nice castles up there to visit. Ski centres are something I hadn't considered but would fit very well with the idea of the si
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by robotmay 14y ago
Ah yes, I (slightly) forgot about the /places and /events pages, as they were mostly added in for SEO purposes. They're next on my list to tidy up, however! I need to figure out a better format for the dates, as there are a number of possib
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by robotmay 14y ago
Now with much more data! I submitted my hobby project Days Out Near Me a few weeks back. I've tried to take on a lot of the great feedback I've had and I've made a number of big improvements to how it works. The site's goal is to aggregate
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Show HN: Find days out near you in the UK(daysoutnear.me)
31 points by robotmay 14y ago|33 comments
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by robotmay 15y ago
I've noticed that too; I had a similar experience when I asked for feedback on my project, only with Reddit. I got 0 replies and little traffic from HN (admittedly it was pretty sparse on data and I'll resubmit it soon now that I've vastly
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by robotmay 15y ago
Nice to know, as I'm currently reverse engineering API calls for a few organisations in the UK who don't supply their data in easily parsable formats. It's not for anything malicious; I'm actually trying to drive traffic to their sites and
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by robotmay 15y ago
If Riak was available as an on-demand service on any cloud provider other than Joyent then I would have jumped on it a while ago. If I ever had anything large enough to warrant it then I'd build my own cluster, but it's just not worth the e
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by robotmay 15y ago
But currently only if you live in Wales, UK. This is my first personal project that I've actually managed to get live, so I'm very keen to get any/all suggestions and constructive criticism. The idea is to provide one site to find decent da
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Show HN: Days out near me(daysoutnearme.com)
2 points by robotmay 15y ago|1 comments
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by robotmay 15y ago
Nice to see Projector on HN; I'm one of the paying users (well, my company's paying). I've found it to be a much better fit for my workflow than Pivotal/Basecamp etc. Brennan's been great at looking for feedback and keeping in touch with ev