Ross Wintle

After the EU referendum, a petition on the Government petitions site went crazy (see https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/131215).

I was intrigued at the seemingly constant rate of increase in signatures on this petition. The JSON data was available under an open license so I decided to track it.

This was an excuse to build a really simple Laravel app as a refresher, but one that would make use of queues and jobs, a JS charting library, and a HTTP library that I'd not used before.

The result is at http://petition-track.uk - a write up will be coming soon.

Published: 29th Jun 2016