What are the black dots around the map when you zoom in? For instance South-East Wales / Bristol, I see a few black dots that look like they cover shaded areas or something. They also show up at the sites for wind farms, possibly they're the turbines themselves?
Readit Newsbitdivision commented on UK government launches fuel forecourt price API gov.uk/guidance/access-th... · Posted by u/Technolithic
I spent the last few hours hacking together PetrolMate using this dataset: https://petrolmate.co.uk
A couple of interesting observations while building it:
Yesterday the dataset had ~600 stations. Today it’s reporting 6,666 stations from the UK government feed, which is… a slightly ominous number, but according to the data and me asking an LLM, that’s close to full UK coverage already.
I deliberately went for a “pure speed” tech stack. Astro, no UI framework, just vanilla JS. Deployed on Cloudflare, with prices stored in D1.
I'm not using the API to load the data, I'm cleansing and then importing the CSV (which you can download for free) into the D1 database.
There’s also an /insights page with some aggregated stats that genuinely surprised me: https://petrolmate.co.uk/insights
Really nice to finally have an official, open dataset to build on. It already feels far more reliable than the old user-reported approaches, and it’ll be interesting to see how coverage and update frequency settles over the next few weeks.
Would love to hear feedback by the way. What is this missing to make it a genuinely useful tool?
Looks great. Interesting to see that a lot of stations are included but without prices.
Note, in brave on linux I can't see the map. Console has a lot of 401 on stadiamaps. But works great in chrome.
bitdivision commented on UK government launches fuel forecourt price API gov.uk/guidance/access-th... · Posted by u/Technolithic
I guess the question is how will it be enforced and what would the penalties be for reporting inaccurate or outdated data?
Companies do not understand "must" unless it's accompanied by a proven threat of sanctions that outweighs the profits made by breaching the regulation. The GDPR is a good example of plenty of "musts" and theoretical fines but lax enforcement means it's always more profitable to breach it than comply.
Some vague info here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/fuel-finder-enfor...
bitdivision commented on UK government launches fuel forecourt price API gov.uk/guidance/access-th... · Posted by u/Technolithic
> From 2 February 2026, you must submit fuel price updates within 30 minutes of any change.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-your-fuel-prices-and-fore...
So looks as though the requirement to report was only just introduced, hence the considerable missing data.
Edit: BBC reporting here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp80dpzdg37o
I happened to be looking at ski boot fitting this morning and came across a web app from fischersports that allows you to measure your feet using your phones camera. Surprise surprise it uses a sheet of A4 paper.
App is about halfway down this page, https://www.fischersports.com/rc4-podium-rd-worldcup-strd/U0... under 'find your size' and is powered by https://volumental.com/
bitdivision commented on Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far grocerydive.com/news/krog... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
They literally copied their supplier ( autostore ).
Unfortunately, auto.ol shared secrets with them, Ocado abused that in court.
Literally, Fuck Ocado. I wouldn't trust them.
Some context: https://archive.ph/Apfdv
Autostore ended up paying Ocado? How did Ocado abuse them?
bitdivision commented on In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/samizdis
Deep fried Mars bars are an English thing.
They were supposedly invented in Scotland, and I've not seen them sold in an English fish and chip shop. Go to Scotland however and they're not uncommon.
bitdivision commented on WeatherNext 2: Our most advanced weather forecasting model blog.google/technology/go... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
How does one use weather data in an energy market, if you don't mind my asking?
Seems like it would be pretty useful to forecast the supply of renewables (wind, solar, maybe some hydro).
bitdivision commented on All praise to the lunch ladies bittersoutherner.com/issu... · Posted by u/gmays
Look at the graph of life expectancy vs. average sodium intake by country, and you may be surprised.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33351135/ Correlated with life expectancy
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