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·2 ay önce·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

·3 ay önce·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

·4 ay önce·discuss

Can't live without Hammerspoon on Mac.

Can't live without AutoHotkey on Windows.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to both!

mwagstaff

·8 ay önce·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

·8 ay önce·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?