Links and Notes for the day - June 29th 2018
I completed my first tiny DIY project. I also got to know of a nearly 1 person effort that switched Facebook from using Python 2 to Python 3.
Posted on June 29 2018
Links and Notes for the day - June 28th 2018
Product hunt launches a news reader app, and I can't help but wonder if they could have done mostly the same with just Instagram account.
Posted on June 28 2018
Links and Notes for the day - June 25th 2018
Reflecting on parenting styles from modern days, and yesteryear. And taking a look at the dangers of internet connected devices today.
Posted on June 25 2018
Origami Tortoise
A few photos and some thoughts on the build experience of the little tortoise (or mud š¢)
Posted on June 24 2018
Links and Notes of the day - 22nd June 2018
Recommending ufc 223 and a jazz pianist I discovered only today.
Posted on June 22 2018
Links and Notes for the Day - 21st of June 2018
Food and bitcoins Genius Kitchen's Famous Food Truck Deserves a lot more love yo! Famous Food Truck is a show hosted by the famous epic meal time guy Harley Morenstein. The "Moooaarr Bacon" guy. Remember this stuff? So he invites (internet) celebrities to his food truck
Posted on June 21 2018
Links and Notes for the day - 20th June 2018
Arsenic dust and books. Tom scott takes us to a deadly mine, and I share some new books from my friend Yudhanjaya.
Posted on June 20 2018
The steam store rules and accepting responsibility
Steam published a blog post on who gets to be on the steam store With that principle in mind, we've decided that the right approach is to allow everything onto the Steam Store, except for things that we decide are illegal, or straight up trolling. Taking this approach
Posted on June 19 2018
Links and Notes for the day - 19th June 2018
Recovering from fasting, Elon Musk, incremental life improvements, and more
Posted on June 19 2018
Links and Notes for the day - 18th June 2018
Leave day. On taking leave I'm on leave today and boy does it feel unsettling. I'm reflecting on taking leave, something I'm notoriously bad at, and comparing it to how I switch off at other times. On weekends, and after work on weekdays, I
Posted on June 18 2018
Links and Notes of the day - 17th June 2018
Cryptokitties sales plummet in popularity People had already spent millions buying and trading CryptoKitties by the time top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures decided to give the company $12 million. Before the deal went through, one investor in the company told Business Insider that the product embodied
Posted on June 17 2018
Links and Notes of the day - 16th June 2018
Eid Mubarak Eid Mubarak It's Eid in Sri Lanka. Thank goodness for that. This year we've had so much confusion around the moon sighting and when Eid would end up being. The whole concept of moon sighting has become a political dance in Sri Lanka with
Posted on June 17 2018
Links and notes for the day - 15th June 2018
Heads up. Change incoming: One thing that I've noted during the day is that I have lots of little thoughts or comments on somethings that I don't necessarily feel are big enough to expand into an entire blogpost. Generally these end up as tweets. I'
Posted on June 15 2018
Links of the day - 13th June 2018
Node JS makes its way into Google's App engine environment This is significant news. Google's App engine environment has been "dead-ish" for a long time. Node is making its way in only now. Python is still stuck on an end of life version (2)
Posted on June 13 2018
Links of the day - 12th June 2018
I found this video particularly fascinating for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the information presented in it. Secondly, because I'm always interested in learning of university/lab experiments that have a direct and visible impact of betterment of people's lives. I came across this channel as
Posted on June 13 2018
The Road To 100 percent Productivity
How I'm determined to prove that doing more with less time is the antidote to "The Grind". This is a transparent journey towards maximum productivity.
Posted on May 21 2018
Indexing my notebook
And a travel back in time I started indexing my notebook today. The process is: 1. I number each page in my notebook, 2. I turn to the last page in the notebook and create a "table of contents" that basically fills pages in reverse. Eventually the notes
Posted on May 03 2018
Links of the day - 26th March 2018
Usability of Key Distribution in BlockChain Backed Electronic Voting I've heard the claim a lot that Blockchains are great for elections. And in theory, I'm convinced that if you get all the external moving pieces right, then yes. It IS a viable and trustworthy alternative to
Posted on March 28 2018
Links of the day - 25th March 2018
Learn Go by writing tests A decent in progress series of learning Go using TDD. As someone who is building his first real Go project using TDD I can affirm it's a great way to learn the language without taking Jacky shortcuts. BBC did a feature on a
Posted on March 26 2018
Links of the day - 24th March 2018
From the ycombinator blog, "Congrats Dropbox" Dropbox impressed investors in Boston. It just didnāt impress them enough to write a check. We used to do one Demo Day in Boston in the summer, then fly everyone out to Silicon Valley to do another there a week later.
Posted on March 25 2018