Rukshan's Blog

There are so many JavaScript frameworks, and new frameworks come out every few months.

Recently I came across a post, called “Why we stopped making Einsteins“.

Web3 is fascinating and uncharted territory.

Yesterday a tweet by Duminda, a fellow developer on Twitter, caught my eye.

Every week or twice a week, you will come across a post on HackerNews that Google is dying or Google is awful.

Recently I was browsing Product Hunt and I was aimlessly scrolling down to see if there are any interesting ideas.

Recently I was shown a product marketing itself as providing geological data layer for apps.

GIT is a part of the toolkit of every good developer.

Recently I was recommended a YouTube video titled “How to Google like a senior software engineer”.

Recently I wrote a short post about why you should work on interesting problems instead of interesting technologies.

When I first began learning programming with basic and pascal, our computer class started teaching us Java.

Today I was having a lecture about information security and information security law.

I have always been a solo developer, trying to create something for fun, for myself, trying to get something off the ground, whatever programming I do I did it by myself.

I have been using Bootstrap since it was version 2.

SCSS is a CSS pre-processor.

In my previous post, I wrote about how I manually deployed a working GlassFish web server for Java based web apps.

Recently I had to locally run a JavaEE web app so I can contribute to the project.

This was initially posted as a thread on Twitter, but I decided to add some context and expand it more on the blog.

In April I made a decision that I wanted to make for a very long time.

Today I got to read a post titled “When Buddhism Goes Bad”, the title incised me to read it.

I created my email address when Gmail was still an invitation only platform, and I was 15 at that time.

I’m writing a blog post after a very long time.

Recently I started working on a small open-source project side project with Vue, and I wanted to create yes/no dialog (basically a model) which will show a notification with a confirm and cancel button.

Replit was a service that I was using as a tool where my colleagues were able to run some code snippets online to learn some concepts which I wanted to teach.

When I first started my new blog, I wanted to post at least one post a week.

Facebook likes to collect as much data as possible, and they will try to retain your data as long as possible.

Textareas are a basic and and an important element in any website UI.

Clubhouse is like a blackhole for your time, it’s no wonder why everyone in the valley are interested about it.

Today I complete my first week in clubhouse, the audio only social network, which according to some the hottest startup currently available on the internet, while Facebook, Twitter trying to copy the idea and incorporate it on to their own social networks.

You’re a creator, you have been working on your idea for few months.

I wanted to write something like this for a while, to look at a launch and dissect it and do a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats).

When a user signs up for a service most of the time they have to share their email address.

I haven’t been very active on my blog recently, but when I initially started the blog I wanted to post at least one post per week.

Last week government launched its online covid tracker called the “StaySafe” program.

Uber is one of the leaders in ride-sharing in the US and in Europe.

I know the advice is to find a co-founder.

Today I received this popup notifying me that soon people using Instagram will be able to find and message me on Facebook.

I first started using NuxtJS one year ago, when I tried to make a platform for travellers to easily find and book villas online.

Recently I had a very annoying experience using VSCode.

When it comes to IT in this country we are not having a great year, especially when it comes to IT involving health and security.

Roughly three years ago we started TreeTalks, it was a very simple idea, we deliver cacti, succulents and indoor plants to people who ordered them online.

Today hackers were able to briefly take over the Google.lk domain, the Google’s search engine page for Sri Lanka and redirect it to bring awareness to an ongoing crisis in Sri Lanka.

Google recently announced their Q4 results, and it seems almost everyone is having a great Q4 from Facebook, to Amazon to Google.

Google recently blocked the Matrix based chat app Element from the Play Store sighting sexual content on the platform.

Recently this post making rounds on some of the dev community groups which I’m a part of on Facebook.

Since I use Vue for almost all of my projects, if I’m making an application that requires routing and server side rendering (for SEO), I use NuxtJS.

This post will might be the post that will roast me the most.

The first month of 2021 is a bad month to begin with, I always say to myself that we need to fail fast and fail quickly, but failing is not a pleasant experience.

Recently I read a post which said that the White House official website will be now powered by WordPress.

In a previous post I wrote that I live in a part of the world that does not provide unlimited internet.