A blog of my programming experience
Yesterday I received an email saying that my site was down. I checked my server and it was indeed down, and the server was having abnormally high CPU usage from Apache. There was a resource-intensive website (the National Rail timetable) hosted on…
PHP, like Javascript, started as a scripting language for the web, with PHP for server side and Javascript for client side. They were initially designed to add simple, dynamic elements into static web pages in an era when processing power was just…
After years of being a netizen, I now have hundreds of online accounts. In the past, I tried to ensure the uniqueness, yet easy-to-remember, passwords everywhere by using an “algorithm” to derive strong passwords for each site. Unfortunately, my algorithm couldn’t work…
I have a PHP component, miklcct/journey_recorder, which can be used either as a standalone website or as part of another site. It started initially as a pure PHP component which does all work server-side and outputs HTML to the browser, but over…
I have made a journey recorder which I use to record my public transport journeys on the go. However, a significant portion of my journeys are in places without internet access, such as the Underground, which make me difficult to use it…
I have published my first version of National Rail timetable website at GBTT.uk. It is probably the first site on the market which can show updated train timetables in traditional format, as an alternative to printed PDF timetables from Network Rail and…
I am announcing the retirement of host name miklcct.csproject.org by 2022-05-24 as part of the migration of my storage solution. All the public usage of miklcct.csproject.org has been migrated to my permanent domain, miklcct.com , for about 6 years already, and in…
Multiple train companies attempted to run their trains back in time last week, including a Thameslink train which took -55m (negative 55 minutes) from Gatwick Airport to the next station Three Bridges, departing 02:58 and arriving 02:03: Or a South Western Railway…
The journey recorder on my website, which I have used for a few years to record my public transport journeys, has been split into a separate application which can be installed on any PHP web server, or integrated as part of any…
I have just migrated my server hosting this blog from a VPS on Vultr to SSD Nodes (referral link) due to price advantage. There is a Black Friday sale happening today and I ordered a VPS with 8 cores, 32 GB RAM…