Tech
We've always known Google Analytics would be susceptible to anti-tracking extensions like AdBlock [https://getadblock.com/] and uBlock Origin [https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock]. I never really thought about how big that difference would be. It was only when we started using Cloudflare on Nomad List [https://nomadlist.
Sports
For a long time, I would always workout with music. It kept away the boredom and gave something to jam along to. The problem I discovered is you're not present with the activity you're doing. Your mind is just floating in this beat-infused bubble. When I&
Life
I was recently listening to the latest David Goggins episode [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvWB7B8tXK8] on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. He was promoting his new book, Can't Hurt Me [https://www.amazon.com/Cant-Hurt-Me-Master-Your-ebook/dp/B07H453KGH/], but also appeared on JRE 10 months ago [https:
Life
Today is my 23rd birthday. It's a good time to reflect on the things that have happened in the last year. Anyone who knows me well knows I don't like to celebrate my birthday. I tend to just go out and eat a meal with friends,
Sports
I recently took up static apnea for a couple of weeks. On my first day, I managed to get 3:00. I figured this was pretty good so I wanted to keep a list of my static apnea [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_apnea] personal records over time. 2018-12-184:
Tech
My blog is generated by Jekyll and hosted on a Linode VPS. This is how I set up Git to allow me to instantly deploy updates. My setup has gone through a few iterations over the years, as I changed technologies and tried to make it easier. I used to
Business
Following my previous post about creating histograms from PHP response times [https://daniellockyer.com/php-response-time-histograms/], I made a small dashboard so I could see those histograms across each site. It was fairly simple to make -- I just looped over the last 50000 lines in the log file, checked if
Tech
Whilst debugging an issue related to response times on Nomad List [https://nomadlist.com] and Remote OK [https://remoteok.io], I started to think about what kind of data we have available to analyse. We keep access logs for all requests coming through the PHP-FPM engine. I briefly wrote about
Life
In order to get from Da Nang to Phuket, I had two options: arrive late at night or sleep in the airport. The first option would have gotten me to Phuket Airport at 22:30, which wasn't ideal and made getting to a hotel at a reasonable time
Life
This is a little story about an experience I had in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam nearly 2 months ago. It's not meant to provoke fear about travelling but I think there are some important lessons to be taken away. I was staying in a hostel in the
Sports
Aside from seeing Phuket, I went there to spectate the Laguna Phuket Triathlon. The day before I ran the charity 5km fun run [https://daniellockyer.com/laguna-phuket-5k/] so I was in a good mood and excited to see the triathlon. It was the 25th year and they had a sprint
Sports
I travelled to Phuket to spectate the Laguna Phuket Triathlon. Having not ran a competitive 5km for a long time, and there being an opportunity to do so on the Saturday, I decided to enter the event. It was technically a charity fun run -- something the locals could participate