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·hace 2 meses·discuss

Very random to see a post about my local station appear on the front page of HN.

If anyone wants a free iPhone app to check train times from Kent House (other stations are available, but may not be featured on HN), here's one Claude and I wrote:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/traintrack-uk/id6504205950

mwagstaff

·hace 3 meses·discuss

With my SRE hat on, dare I ask... could/should this have been picked up in testing?

And then normally there's a nice discussion about how production is very different to the test environment.

mwagstaff

·hace 4 meses·discuss

Can't live without Hammerspoon on Mac.

Can't live without AutoHotkey on Windows.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to both!

mwagstaff

·hace 8 meses·discuss

Unfortunately, I believe it's limited to TfL stations only (e.g. Overground) rather than National Rail.

Oh, and I should have mentioned that I'm also aware of this, but it's not free so automatically outside of my app development budget. :/

https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/developers/online-journey-pla...

mwagstaff

·hace 8 meses·discuss

Very nice! I've also used the Rail Data Marketplace (terrible name) to build an app that uses the live departure board data (https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/traintrack-uk/id6504205950), and it's great the data is freely available.

Whilst HN is on the case, does anyone know of an API (inside Rail Data Marketplace or elsewhere) that acts as a journey planner for UK national rail, i.e. you can input source + destination stations and it will output journey options?