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  1. WhereToLearn logo
    29 October 2026

    Building WhereToLearn: every UK nursery, school and university in one place

    A directory of every nursery, school, college and university in the UK, built from 26 public data sources and a couple of towns that don’t exist

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  2. HowsTheWater?
    20 October 2026

    HowsTheWater?: storm overflows, flood warnings and river levels for UK waterways

    Building an open-data tracker for UK river spills and levels, and why “upstream” is a messy puzzle of river networks, backwards maps, and stale feeds.

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  3. StringMint: unique, collision-free URL-safe strings in PHP
    13 September 2026

    StringMint: generate unique, collision-free URL-safe strings in PHP

    A small PHP library that mints unique short strings by walking the keyspace instead of guessing at it. Zero collisions, zero database lookups.

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  4. Dexcom & Raspberry Pi Pico W
    6 May 2026

    Building a Dexcom-powered glucose monitor with a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

    When you find yourself using the phrase “stale data” so many times it starts to lose all meaning

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