Mount Alexander sunrise timelapse’s
A Mount Alexander Autumn sunrise.
McDonalds trying to stay essential during COVID-19
The Coronavirus pandemic has forced many countries into complete lockdown with only essential businesses to remain open. First coming to mind with being essential includes healthcare/medical centres, supermarkets, pharmacies, fuel…
Vertical video encoding; Does it matter?
Vertical video is a video that is higher than it is wide and is made for viewing on vertical screens which basically just means made of viewing on phones. Because…
The best PHP MySQL SELECT and UPDATE loop
Testing 3 Types of MySQL SELECT and then UPDATE from an API call loops with PHP for speed, efficiency and ability to scale. The idea is needing to select a…
FFmpeg encode percentage progress bar with PHP
Using an HTML progress bar to view FFmpeg video encode progress percentage, With the usage of Ajax and PHP to parse the FFMpeg output file. This method enables a web-based…
PHP Live search from MySQL with AJAX
Creating a live search input form that matches the current input against a MySQL database using AJAX and PHP combined. I needed this to suite a “product select” project whereby…
Australian Government incompetence creates another CentreFail
The Australian Government is so shortsighted and foolish that they labelled the demand crashing MyGov, caused by 1 million jobs being lost as DDos. Who in their right mind aside…
Lake Eppalock blue-green algae bloom
Autumn Lake Eppalock blue-green algae bloom. Recent small runoffs combined with 30 degree sunny days has seen a bright green algae bloom at Lake Epplaock.
PHP str_contains() is born
Early 2020 there was this post on /r/PHP posing the question “With so many features added to PHP, why is there no str_contains?”. flippeeer who submitted this post is right,…
Lake Eppalock Lyal Passage drone images
Lake Eppalock Lyal Passage drone images From dirty water, blue-green algae, views of a dry Coliban pool and powerlines crossing a semi-submerged valley here are drone images from the Lyal…