sf-tree-history
mcbroken-archive
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
sf-tree-history
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Open Data Is Dead
I think this headline was poorly chosen.
When I see the term "Open Data" I instantly think of open data portals - mostly run by governments around the world. These things have never been healthier: ten years ago they hardly existed, today you can get civic data from local governments all over the place (last time I saw an attempt to count there were over 4,000 of these portals, and that was a few years ago).
My favourite example is still this CSV of all 190,000+ trees in San Francisco, which is updated most business days with details of the latest tree changes: https://data.sfgov.org/City-Infrastructure/Street-Tree-List/... - I track changes to it here: https://github.com/simonw/sf-tree-history/
This article is about something different: it's about what I guess you could call the "Open APIs" movement. Back in the days of Web 2.0 every service was launching an open API, hoping to harness developer attention to help make the platforms more sticky. Facebook and Twitter both did incredibly well out of this strategy, at least at first.
THOSE APIs are mostly on the way out now. Companies realized that giving away their data for free has a lot of disadvantages.
Open Data is doing great. Open APIs are not.
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London Street Trees
I've been Git scraping the San Francisco version of this for a few years now.
My https://github.com/simonw/sf-tree-history repo now has 444 commits (most recent one was just 4 days ago) tracking every change that's been made to https://data.sfgov.org/City-Infrastructure/Street-Tree-List/... since March 2019.
I haven't yet done anything with this data, but there is so much potential for visualizations and other fun stuff with it. If anyone wants to have a go please be my guest!
Wrote more about this project here: https://simonwillison.net/2019/Mar/13/tree-history/
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Looking for a dataset that is updated once a day ( not : stocks,crypto,weather)
Trees in San Francisco: https://github.com/simonw/sf-tree-history
mcbroken-archive
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Anyone know where I can get a McFlurry?
Try mcbroken.com.
- Game Thread: St Louis Blues (8-6-1) at Los Angeles Kings (9-3-3) - 18 Nov 2023 - 07:30PM PST
- Why are McDonald's ice cream machines always broken?
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iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine
There is a hot mic admission by Taylor representatives that the McFlurry machine was designed specifically to increase maintenance costs to extract more money from franchisees.
Working McFlurry machine map: https://mcbroken.com
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McDonald's Grimace shake
The McBroken is a real time website that lets you know the exact location of every working and non-working McDonald's ice cream machine.
- The Quest for the Grimace Shake
- What is this?
- Is it just me or why does every single McDonalds I go to in Knoxville not serve shakes?
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Well this was a surprise at one of my stops.
How to prevent heartbreak (and gunshots!): https://mcbroken.com/
- Does the ice cream machine in mcdonalds break that often?
What are some alternatives?
data.gov - Main repository for the data.gov service
factbook.json - World Factbook Country Profiles in JSON - Free Open Public Domain Data - No API Key Required ;-)
scrape-hacker-news-by-domain - Scrape HN to track links from specific domains
mastodon-scraping - Repository for scraping public information from Mastodon
scrape-soe-wwd - Scraping SARS-CoV-2 Measurements in Wastewater
data - Latest data on UK food banks from Give Food scraped from our API and republished in various formats.
cdc-vaccination-history - A git scraper recording the CDC's Covid Data Tracker numbers on number of vaccinations per state.
norcal.pub - The Norcal Pub is a public domain newspaper serving the people of the San Francisco Bay Area.
leafdb.org - A public domain database about trees.
scrape-instances-social - https://instances.social/instances.json
sirdb - :man: a simple, git diffable JSON database on yer filesystem. By the power of NodeJS
scrape-la-fires