A blog of my programming experience
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…
I have just moved to a different country with different time zone. In the past, my server and my blogs were all placed in my local time. Now they can be confusing as I can manage my server from different locations, and…
A few years ago, I wrote an article saying that Java has pointers. However, by typing Java pointer into Google, there are a lot of Stack Exchange questions shown on the top, some says Java does not have pointers, some says Java…
Today when I tried to open one of my websites https://longswims.net/ in order to update its contents, it stopped working throwing HTTP 500. I immediately signed in the web server and found out that the .php file was injected unknown code. I…
I have made a web app to show Citybus & NWFB combined ETA, which was released last month. It has two distinguishing features which bring convenience to users (including myself): It can show the first 3 upcoming departures for any combination of…
The government of Hong Kong has released public transport data set as GTFS. In response, I have built an OpenTripPlanner instance to work on those data as an experiment to have 100% open data public transport routing. The instance is currently accessible…
The type system in PHP has become safer each version since PHP 7.0, by using a strict type declaration on top of the PHP file. As a newly-developed feature, it doesn’t come with the billion-dollar mistake of allowing NULL for variables declared…