Hacker News: jasoncartwright

New comment by jasoncartwright in "Zohran and the Short Link"

jasoncartwright — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:22:44 +0000

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

New comment by jasoncartwright in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

jasoncartwright — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:23:55 +0000

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 :)

New comment by jasoncartwright in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

jasoncartwright — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:02:21 +0000

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.

New comment by jasoncartwright in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

jasoncartwright — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:07:25 +0000

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

New comment by jasoncartwright in "What I love about Django"

jasoncartwright — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:52:11 +0000

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

New comment by jasoncartwright in "The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago"

jasoncartwright — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:14:37 +0000

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

New comment by jasoncartwright in "Thorpe – semi-WYSIWYG Markdown editor"

jasoncartwright — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:17:05 +0000

Good point - updated. Thanks!

Thorpe – semi-WYSIWYG Markdown editor

jasoncartwright — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:04:46 +0000

Article URL: https://thorpeapp.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102321

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by jasoncartwright in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

jasoncartwright — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:59:14 +0000

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

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

OpenShip

jasoncartwright — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:27:55 +0000

Article URL: https://openship.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969022

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jasoncartwright in "We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes"

jasoncartwright — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:57:35 +0000

Hacker News! Never change.

World's only skydiving DC-9 jet [video]

jasoncartwright — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:56:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Gdar72rMU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48815213

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jasoncartwright in "Workers Cache"

jasoncartwright — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:34:54 +0000

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.

New comment by jasoncartwright in "Airplane Boneyards List and Map"

jasoncartwright — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:57:34 +0000

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

Legacy Update – community-run Windows Update

jasoncartwright — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:33:48 +0000

Article URL: https://legacyupdate.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48584377

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jasoncartwright in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

jasoncartwright — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:13:13 +0000

Thank you! Much appreciated.

New comment by jasoncartwright in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

jasoncartwright — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:28:28 +0000

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

Wifärt Gallery

jasoncartwright — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:55:22 +0000

Article URL: https://wifartgallery.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516825

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by jasoncartwright in "Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day"

jasoncartwright — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:48:16 +0000

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

New comment by jasoncartwright in "GeoJSON"

jasoncartwright — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:37:07 +0000

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