23 Jul 2019

A meditation on ‘Kimi no Na wa’
What do I do with all these feels?

Twilight

Twilight

I have been on a Makoto Shinkai binge this week. Even though I am usually very selective and sparse with my media consumption, I had the fortune of seeing Kotonoha no Niwa (Garden of Words) at Malinthe’s the weekend before last, and I was hooked. 5 Centimetres per …

02 Feb 2019

Kottu Kontainers
Using Docker Compose for fun and profit

Remember Kottu? Those were the days. Anyway, Kottu has always been a totally open-source project, and theoretically it is as easy as cloning the git repo and... jumping a few hoops to set it up on your own local machine or VPS.

Except... the loops are tedious and there’s …

08 Jun 2018

Some things I wish I knew as a young startup dev

As some of you might know, I started my career as the first developer at a startup, way back in 2012. It was a challenging but rewarding experience, and I got to learn a lot and explore the full breadth of the software stack. The following are some learnings that …

25 May 2017

සමාජ ජාල ඇත්තටම අවුල්ද?

අද ෆේස්බුක් ගිනුමක් නැතිකෙනෙක් බෙහෙතකටවත් හොයාගන්න අමාරුයි. මේ බ්ලොග් එක කියවන ඔය ඇත්තොනම් ඊටත් එහා ගිය නානාප්‍රකාර සමාජ ජාල ගොඩක ඉන …

28 Mar 2017

Retaining

There was a really interesting YC blog post titled "Ask a Female Engineer: How Can Managers Help Retain Technical Women on Their Team?", which asks a panel of female technical employees on reasons they left jobs or in some cases even change their career paths.

I believe it has some …


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