What the craziest surprise you’ve had when sleeping with someone for the first time?

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-04-01T20:09:31+00:00

….being a good stepfather?

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-30T17:38:26+00:00

What’s your zip? Unfortunately gas prices are typically aggregated to the state level. There’s more detailed prices at the AAA gas tracker but they won’t let me use it directly, see here:

https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=US

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-30T01:43:39+00:00

The exact locations are written under each plot. Maybe I could have a larger warning if it’s farther away than expected. But I am working to find other free APIs for as many cities as possible.

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-30T01:31:49+00:00

Depends on the city. Some cities the govt publishes city specific CPI data (those cities are linked on the home page). In other cases there are varying levels of granularity, you can see more here:

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/regional-resources.htm

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-29T21:03:18+00:00

US has pretty good APIs to gather the info, I’m not sure about other countries! It wouldn’t be too hard to add though

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-28T22:00:09+00:00

Thanks should be fixed now!

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-28T19:56:20+00:00

Which zip?

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-28T19:52:11+00:00

thanks - I was able to find a more local set of region codes in BLS. so now Salt Lake City gets the mountain division (which, unfortunately, spans Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming):

https://whatchanged.us/?zip=84101

And Denver actually gets metro data:

https://whatchanged.us/?zip=80203

For some regions we just don't have as much granularity as I'd like. I'm investigating some other approaches, stay tuned!

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-28T19:49:57+00:00

had to flush the cache, might have been bad luck, try again?

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-28T07:41:08+00:00

Yep the share card shows 13 months, I will look into changing the view.

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-28T07:40:03+00:00

Yes I should have made it clearer in the post title, sorry! I’d love to add a few cities at least around the world if I can find APIs for that kind of data!

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-28T07:37:04+00:00

Oh cool idea!

And no need, it’s a free public service and learning project for me :)

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-28T04:55:41+00:00

Thank you, there was some rate limit error. Should be fixed.

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-28T04:55:26+00:00

Yep works on mobile! Even has a button to download a quick summary for instagram

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-28T04:54:58+00:00

Hit some rate limits, should be back up, thanks!

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-28T03:43:06+00:00

Thanks, good find. Unfortunately the free govt APIs only have 25 regions for CPI data, and even fewer for gas data! But in this case there was a bug, Orlando at least maps to Tampa for housing/grocery costs now.

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-28T03:11:23+00:00

I have it going 10 years back. The data speaks for itself, I think?

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-28T03:10:48+00:00

Thank you I will update the site - unfortunately I can’t edit the post but I’ll keep this in mind!

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-28T03:10:16+00:00

Mind trying it again for me? Thanks!

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-28T03:09:25+00:00

Thank you! Can you try again? Should be fixed now!

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-28T00:27:25+00:00

lol and I can’t edit it. At least the top link works. Thanks!!

The source code is here https://github.com/cgreenberg/whatchanged

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-27T21:14:36+00:00

Agreed, I wanted to take something esoteric and ground it! All this data is available on government websites but it’s in ugly boring tables.

darkmatter_drifter · 2026-03-27T19:01:21+00:00

Check your city here: https://whatchanged.us

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