Rukshan's Blog

An issue that kept me up all night, with no answer.

With vibe-coding, more and more websites I am visiting are changing my mouse pointer

If an organization is technical, the managers should be technical.

I love taking notes with pen and paper, and prefer them over AI pens taking notes for me.

I was clearing my desktop recently when I came across a graphic I made couple of years ago to describe people in my life to another friend.

I just wanted to share something that’s not a rant or something technical.

Life is the sum of small changes, compounded.

Because of AI, are expert talks and conferences getting boring?

It's a litmus test to check how good a chatbot is.

Recently I wrote the blog post “Soulless Vibe-coding” which most of my developer friends commented on in person and via email, even though I didn’t share it on HN or social media.

I was reading an interesting post titled “The Stack Fallacy,” which was written 10 years ago and posted on TechCrunch.

The importance in saying no to things

2025 year in review

I tried creating images with transparent backgrounds with Gemini but I was never able to get it working.

Recently I read this blog post titled “Why speed matters” and, together with a couple of events that happened earlier this week prior to reading the post, I can’t seem to stop thinking about it and thought about writing my own thoughts about it.

Even though I use ChatGPT, Claude and other applications, and even Copilot from time to time for coding, I was never a believer in vibe-coding.

It's not just one minute

I was using ZSH with OmhZH for a long time now, but for the last couple of months I was starting to feel ZSH to be slow, like palpably slow.

Introduction Clinical Quality Language (CQL) is a domain-specific language targeted for healthcare.

Bun gives me faster build times and smaller docker image size comapred to NodeJS

We sometimes tend to start projects where we have no idea whether they will work or not.

I was on Twitter for a very long time, even though I shifted accounts and usernames many times, I remember creating my Twitter account way back in 2008 or 2009.

This February we had the chance to demonstrate our work in developing and implementing a decision support dashboard for the Ministry of Health Sri Lanka.

CHT javascript extensions can be used to customize the look and feel of the CHT form

Google chrome is moving to manifest version 3 and so many of my favorite chrome extensions are at risk of shutting down

I have been blogging for nearly 15 years now—gosh, I feel so old.

Attending a conference can be an expensive thing to do, with lots of expenses, for example, the travel cost, the ticket for the conference, the food, and lodging are some of the main expenses you will have to pay, on top of that there will be hidden small…

Few years ago I was someone was not interested in academia, I felt as if people are rehashing the same scientific topic in different ways, or publishing every minute thing just to add up to their pile of publications.

Google when it first came out as a search engine was innovative in so many different aspects from search engines that preceded Google.

The month of May ended me attending the Geneva digital health day, and event following the Geneva health forum.

I feel as if the AI hype has peeked, and I am very skeptical about the AI wave that’s happening where majority of the ideas are chatGPT wrappers.

Hello, I’m Rukshan.

I have never been interested in academia and research.

I’ve not been able to write something new lately, in fact, I think this is the first post of the year.

Recently, apart from my work on FHIR and interoperability, I got a chance to work on clinical decision support, healthcare surveys and verbal autopsy.

I haven’t posted on my blog for a long time, partly because I have been super busy with my personal and work life.

I was lucky enough to attend the DHIS2 annual conference at the University of Oslo last week, where I was able to meet experts from all around the world in digital health to discuss not just DHIS2 but also FHIR and interoperability in general.

Recently I had to do some text editing and was in need of a text editor that was better than Notepad, and with muscle memory, I went on and tried to download VSCodium.

How to add a missing country map to Apache Superset

Recently a college contacted me asking how they can install DHIS2 on a Windows server which they have just received on their premises.

When implementing FHIR, a FHIR server is essential for validating and process incoming FHIR requests from clients.

Apache Superset is a great free and open-source software released by the Apache foundation for advanced data visualization and exploration.

Recently I started migrating my note-taking from Notion to Obsidian.

Recently (last Saturday), I went to the Colombo Street Food Festival.

I know this is going to sound just like another complaint against Google, but I want my Google results to be better.

The data protection act in Sri Lanka is a highly awaited and timely act to enable data protection in Sri Lanka.

RSS is a great piece of technology that people who use the internet today are unaware of or not using.

Sri Lanka is facing a never before seen fuel crisis due to the nation’s foreign exchange crisis.

The crypto market has not been kind to “investors” lately.

VS Code has been my primary text editor/ IDE for several years.