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No idea. I built something for this though https://metaweather.com

Since last year the BBC is back using the Met Office https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crm4z8mple3o

jasoncartwrighton Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

I've attended a few UK vote counts. Pencil is also used - but you can bring your own pen if you'd like.

I think it's mainly to prevent smudges as the paper is folded to be put into the ballot box. Pencils are also more reliable than pens, and have a longer shelf life between votes, I'd imagine?

At the polling stations & counts I've been to and overseen there is pretty much zero opportunity (or interest) in changing people's votes on the papers. I'd imagine this is the same in most first-world countries. In fact, once I spotted and got corrected a paper missed for a candidate opposing the candidate I was a counting agent for.

jasoncartwrighton Zohran and the Short Link

bbc.co.uk/thing is the standard for URLs used like this at the BBC, and it works great there too. The ubiquity of BBC URLs on audio/video in the UK helps.

Here's what it was like beforehand. Laughable! https://youtu.be/MEN8KvEuYhE?t=54

jasoncartwrighton Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election

Instant tribal labelling - a great example of my point. Nicely done.

I'm off to do some property damage, incite racial hatred and predict civil war to live up to my new moniker :)

jasoncartwrighton Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election

Brexit divided and continues to cause paralysis. Soft, hard, or no-deal? Simplistic binary vote specified no mechanism, destination, or future relationship. Leave and remain have completely incompatible visions for post-Brexit Britain.

Along with (IMHO) a polycrisis of far-right immigration agitation, post-COVID stagnation, high energy costs, NHS/social care strain, housing/planning hell, lack of infrastructure investment.

We're not in a great place and, to your point, there is no clear way out.

jasoncartwrighton London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

Yes, I take that expensive and poorly performing train every month or so. It's cheaper and easier to take the car sometimes, unfortunately.

jasoncartwrighton What I love about Django

Do they have prominent blogs that are good to read to keep up in the industry you work in?

jasoncartwrighton The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

It's annoyingly disconcerting. A simple database row count apparently now difficult in 2026.

jasoncartwrighton Thorpe – semi-WYSIWYG Markdown editor

Good point - updated. Thanks!

jasoncartwrighton London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service

It's not very good - late around half the time.

https://www.gatwickexpress.com/how-were-performing/train-ser...

jasoncartwrighton We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes

Hacker News! Never change.

jasoncartwrighton Workers Cache

The previous Worker in-front of the cache never made sense to my old school proxy in-front of the appserver mindset. Already using this to speed up a tool. Nice work.

jasoncartwrighton Airplane Boneyards List and Map

You may also enjoy Cockpit Casual from Nomadic Aviation Group. Their amazing COVID-era videos often ended at these storage airports.

https://www.youtube.com/@CockpitCasual

jasoncartwrighton Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

Thank you! Much appreciated.

jasoncartwrighton Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

Charities in the UK are regulated by three separate gov organisations - all with not great websites.

I'm building a quick and clear search across all of them plus, I believe uniquely, their regulatory filing PDFs and websites.

https://opencharities.uk

jasoncartwrighton Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day

Somewhere between 6-9% of total retail electricity spend. So, not almost nothing.

jasoncartwrighton GeoJSON

Have been using geojson for a while and was frustrated at lack of simple web tools play with it in browser. So I built https://geojson.page

jasoncartwrighton An update on GitHub availability

That website (for me) uses Cloudflare via WPEngine, which also isn't Azure

jasoncartwrighton An update on GitHub availability

Prime video uses a non-AWS CDN when I watch football on it here in the UK

jasoncartwrighton An update on GitHub availability

Seems pretty sensible to not rely on a single provider for their large complex system?

jasoncartwrighton Incident with multple GitHub services

I paid 390 USD for a year Pro+ subscription in November 2025.

I used all the 'Premium Requests' every month on (mainly) Opus 4.5 & 4.6. From what I've read on here it seems I was probably a rather unprofitable customer - it felt like a steal.

jasoncartwrighton Incident with Multple GitHub Services

Claude Code

jasoncartwrighton Incident with multple GitHub services

Just cancelled my GitHub Copilot Pro+ year subscription. Removal of Opus 4.6 stung, but the repeated continued downtime makes it unusable for me. Very disappointed.

No fuss instant refund of my unused subscription (£160) appreciated.

jasoncartwrighton Tesla concealed fatal accidents to continue testing autonomous driving

Teslas turning off autopilot seconds before a crash, apparently avoiding being recorded as active during an incident, is wild https://futurism.com/tesla-nhtsa-autopilot-report

jasoncartwrighton Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network

https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/

jasoncartwrighton Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)

A news aggregator https://crawl.news

jasoncartwrighton Show HN: Price Per Ball – Site that sorts golf balls on Amazon by price per ball

Came here to comment how much it's like the superb diskprices.com. Excellent work.

jasoncartwrighton Railway (PaaS) global outage

PaaS

jasoncartwrighton Self Driving Car Insurance

Yet still on relying you to cover it with your insurance. Again, clearly not autonomous.