Life
After arriving in KL [https://daniellockyer.com/flying-to-kuala-lumpur/], I spent the rest of the day wandering around trying to get some bearings. I had randomly booked a hotel 5 minutes away from KL Sentral, the train station you arrive at when you come from the airport. The Fajr prayer call
Life
NYE is normally a quiet time for me. This year I went for dinner with a friend in Chiang Mai and then proceeded to head home. A couple of hours later, another friend said they were all heading out to Tha Phae on the east side of Old City to
Life
After 2 months in Thailand, my visa was up so I had to move on to another country. I was originally looking at going to Bali, Indonesia but the recent tsunami on a neighbouring island, and their general lack of a tsunami warning system made me a little hesitant to
Life
After running my 5km race in Phuket [https://daniellockyer.com/laguna-phuket-5k/] and flying to Bangkok to meet Jet [https://jetholt.com/exploring-bangkok/], I took the train to Chiang Mai for the second time. I tried to fix some of the issues with the journey I experienced last time but I
Business
Part of my job as a server consultant is maintaining servers and quickly responding to issues as they arise. Yesterday, I unlocked my phone to find a message from a client. He said Apache was getting railed and the server load was over 80. I quickly opened my laptop and
Life
I lived with asthma for most of my life but when I started exercising, I was cured. Note: I am not a medical professional. Don't do anything stupid. I was diagnosed with asthma at 18 months old. I'm not quite sure of the details but apparently
Life
Happy New Year from Thailand! To kick off the New Year, the Chiang Mai WIP gang hiked up to Wat Phra That Doi Suthep. I suggested going up Pilgrim's Trail -- having only completed around half of it on my last trip here. We started around 0900. There
Sports
At some point after I publish this blog post, I'm going to go out for a run and tick over 250km for the month. This is the most I've ever ran and it's not a lot, but it's a good step to
Business
I've been going on about PHP 7.3 for a long time now. There's even a sticker of me talking about it in the WIP Telegram group. And it was finally released at the beginning of December. But I don't think it's
Business
I've had several clients come to me asking to help with their website performance, insisting that they must get a PageSpeed Insights score of 100. I have quite a reserved opinion on this. Yes, Google PageSpeed Insights is incredible useful and lists a lot of easy performance gains
Life
I've spent the last month and a half in Chiang Mai and something has really started to irritate me. Since deleting Instagram [https://daniellockyer.com/deleting-instagram/], it feels even more prevalent that everywhere I look I notice people are creating these fake versions of their life to post
Life
I recently had to extend my 30 day visa exemption by another 30 days. Last time I was here, I went to Promenada mall on the south east side of Chiang Mai. As of September 2018, Promenada mall immigration office closed down and replaced with one by the airport. It&