Anyone else tapping their fingers waiting for the next batch of seat previews from @samfr to land? Young habits die hard as well, apparently...

So far, in terms of seat accuracy, the Survation MRP from June 2nd and the exit poll from tonight are "joint worst" on only 90% accuracy.

What a night - obviously for the country, but I had a fabulous time doing election tech. Many, many lessons learned - will try to find time to blog over the weekend. Apologies for the 11 minutes of downtime 5:42-5:53. Next order of business is scraping majorities from the BBC.

Blogged: "Lessons from election night" - codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2024/07/09/les… - with thanks to Sam Freedman for the seat previews that got me started on this in the first place.

Normally I'm a huge procrastinator. Today, I have bought a Christmas present for Holly *and* pushed the first "real" features to election2029.uk (albeit only the 2024 results per constituency). I suspect this is the first site dedicated to the UK 2029 election. Yay me.

In a meeting where various folks didn't know each other. My lead asked for suggestions for an ice-breaker, and I suggested "favourite time zone" - we went with it, and it was awesome! #LifeGoals

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Kudos to Andertons Music Co. support for a swift and informative reply to my order status request. Good stuff.