It's a good job it was off by such a large amount, or I might have panicked instead of writing it off as a phishing attempt. I had an email saying my $7.50 budget had been exceeded with an actual cost of $3bn.
I didn't notice this at first but if you click the pencil icon you can draw a shape to match against instead of searching with text or browsing with the dropdown
Crazy to see this story on the front page of the BBC and now Hacker News too! Ronnie was an awesome guy, and absolutely a part of Rob and Dianne's family, not a "maid" as another comment suggested.
Very soothing. Now I'm wondering how common "a supermarket trolley on the track earlier on this train's journey" is in Scotland that they needed to pre-record that audio.
In case the author is reading, the specified font-family 'Cantarell' is not loading and there are no fallbacks specified. Probably needs a 'sans-serif' fallback or a webfont.
A little word guessing game called LingoLingoLingo that I made over the Christmas period after watching TV episodes of Lingo and being introduced to Wordle. I didn't have the patience to wait for the new Wordle word each day and wasn't enjoying the barrage of adverts in the official Lingo mobile apps so I thought I'd make something of my own. Started as just a quick demo in the browser console but spurred on by family members I made it into an actual website.
I've made a few improvements (particularly around making the word list more friendly - nothing worse than trying to guess a totally obscure or archaic word) and the site has been shared around friends/family/colleagues over the past month or so. It seems to be averaging 300+ visits per day now which honestly is surpassing my incredibly low expectations for the site.
Tech stack was just sticking to what I know: React / Redux / Styled Components, and hosted on Cloudflare pages.
Would love to hear any feedback / suggestions!
Side note: I originally hosted this with Netlify but wasn't keen on paying for analytics that were very clearly padded out with bots/hackers trying to find wordpress admin pages. Interested to see if anyone has had similar experience? Using the Cloudflare JS-based analytics seems to be giving much more realistic figures and I think it's a nice balance between purely server-log-driven analytics and the more sinister tracking-everything-you-do that you get with Google Analytics. Interestingly a lot of traffic (around one-third of all visits) is via the Bing search engine.
Wordle is cool in its simplicity and focus on 'once per day' but the mechanic is literally a clone of Lingo already (the UK gameshow version at least, which I think is also a clone of the American Lingo gameshow).
I made LingoLingoLingo after watching the Lingo reboot here in the UK and then playing Wordle. I got a bit carried away and what started as a hacky demo in the browser console morphed into a proper website. Have a go and let me know what you think!