Daniel Lockyer

Daniel Lockyer

Performance and scaling consultant who analyzes the full stack - frontend, backend and infrastructure - to generate more revenue and cut costs for businesses.

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Life

A collection of 31 issues

Getting the train to Chiang Mai

A couple of weeks after going to Bangkok, I decided to move on towards Chiang Mai. I had seen YouTube videos and blogs describing the experience and I thought it looked great. My friend also decided to come along so it was nice to share the experience with someone. The

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Arriving in Bangkok for the first time

My flight from Heathrow to Cologne was over before I even had a chance to get my headphones out. I've never taken such a short flight before so it was quite weird to be landing within an hour. Maybe I should have done more research but my plan

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Dispatched

Yesterday I left my hometown of Nuneaton, UK to begin my journey to South-East Asia. I had breakfast with my family and said goodbye to my grandparents. I collected my bag and my dad took me to the train station. It was quite emotional leaving everyone -- not knowing when

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Going up Teide

Going up Teide

Whilst on holiday in Tenerife, my brother and I took an organised trip up the volcano Teide. We stopped at a café in Villaflor to get food and so people could buy cable car tickets. Despite the fact that most of the sea-level landscape on Tenerife is barren and desert-like,

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Graduation

On July 19th 2018 I graduated from the University of Southampton with First Class Honours in MEng Computer Science.

The next two months

I am writing this post with just over a week left living in my house in Southampton, UK. I finished my university exams at the end of May and I've been living in this city for 4 years. It's been a crazy time but it seems

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Automating gym bookings

My gym uses an online system to take gym class bookings. People often book way in advance and then cancel on the day. There's no waiting list so if you want to grab a last minute spot, you have to be lucky enough to try and book in

Paris trip

In April 2018 I travelled to Paris to take part in the marathon. I went with my uncle and 2 family friends who are in my triathlon group. Three of us were running, with the fourth recovering from knee surgery. I will write a specific post on the marathon soon.

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Scuba diving

Scuba diving

In 2014 I went on holiday to Fuerteventura with my then girlfriend. The start of the holiday wasn't great as we were put in a different hotel to that which we had paid for. The food was unbelievably bad, and we had noisy neighbours arguing until the early

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How I started programming

How I started programming

I learned to program in June 2011, at the age of 15, during my summer holidays. I had just finished my penultimate year of high school and wanted to learn something to do with my interest of computers. I think that was also when I decided I wanted to study

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