Links and Notes - 30th June 2020
Memories of friendship bracelets, pandemic worries, and some rough thoughts on the current discourse around cancel culture.
Posted on July 01 2020
Links and Notes - May 15th 2020
Unreal's new engine. Covid updates in NZ. Corridor Digital turns 10. And more
Posted on May 15 2020
The power of Cloudflare and the basic web
Developers creating content shouldn't need to feel that JAM stacks or Static Sites or serverless are where you need to start. Existing "basic" tools can provide an equal or even better overall experience.
Posted on May 13 2020
Links and notes - May 11th 2020
MS build is happening from May 19th to 20th. Not sure if it's because of the choice I made in what my primary work is but I'm a little sad to see that consumer desktop/UWP applications doesn't seem to be covered in this
Posted on May 12 2020
Thoughts on Trilium notes (and others)
During the weekend I spent some time trying to set up Trilium notes. For those who don't know, Trilium notes is an open source note taking application. It is hierarchical which means the notes are organised like a tree. It has both a client and server component. That
Posted on May 11 2020
Links and Notes - May 1st 2020
Covid updates from Sri Lanka, I start working on Project Euler and I wrote a blog post :)
Posted on May 01 2020
Liberal Literature's Losing Leg
I read an article today by Matt Taibbi titled "The Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis is Here". Throughout the article, the author puts into words a set of feelings I've had for a while regarding liberal media. Most of the material seems to revolve around the topic
Posted on May 01 2020
Site migrations and plans
When it comes to technology and server administration, there's an amazing array of hosted or 1 click/command setups out there for almost anything these days. Despite that, my personal preference is to work as close as possible to completely self hosted, self managed solutions as possible. Not
Posted on April 28 2020
Dear Suresh
A reply to a Facebook comment regarding racism, fake information, privilege, and harmony.
Posted on May 10 2019
Year of drawings - 15th to 19th December 2018
heads heads heads heads heads. Practicing Loomis' head drawing and ending with a first attempt at a self portrait
Posted on December 19 2018
Year of drawings - 15th December 2018
Tracing/Sketching Eduardo
Posted on December 15 2018
Year of drawings - 14th December 2018
Sketching Buffer's CEO Joel during an all hands.
Posted on December 14 2018
Year of Drawings - 13th December 2018
Bringing an original character to life with a not very original take. Wizard Mopson.
Posted on December 13 2018
Year of Drawings - 28th November 2018
Incy Wincy Spider meets Gandalf the angry.
Posted on November 28 2018
Draw a day - 23rd November 2018
Practicing lines and boxes
Posted on November 23 2018
Year of drawings
Attempting to form a new habit of practicing drawing daily for 1 year (minus weekends). This isn't just drawings. It's actual practice of certain fundamentals to help me get better.
Posted on November 22 2018
Enabling bufferbot to do parallel deployments
Changing "Bufferbot deploy this" to mean "deploy something else" as well.
Posted on November 19 2018
Investigating concurrency in a Flask App
WSGI, Nginx, Oh my (?)
Posted on August 02 2018
Rediscovering Slow Reading
This is a reflection on how I would consume content slowly as a child, how I've changed, and how I was reminded today, that slow is the way to go
Posted on July 05 2018
Links and notes for the day - 2nd July 2018
50% of the year is done, I find myself intrigued by advances in game AI, mechanics of games that last forever, and what it was like to grow up Asian :D .
Posted on July 02 2018