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I bought a treadmill a month back.

This is not a new project, This is a recounting of events that took place five years ago.

Nothing makes me miserable than a leaky roof, I seldom thought of this when living with my parents.

To my two followers, here’s an update on the site.

On defensive driving.

I got handed down some Neo Wi-Fi alarms, could have set these up with Tuya app but a local setup is much better.

193 deaths, 228 missing and 968,304 persons affected. - Disaster Management Center (DMC) situation report on 2025/11/30 at 12:00 Image 1: Sri Lanka under cyclone ditwah, captured by JAXA’s Himwari-8 satellite Please help out relief efforts any way you can.

A constant sound track of my life, and I don’t doubt many others is Für Elise by Beethoven I don’t wake up and play a worn record of Beethoven’s piano classic (maybe some do) but because of the bread three wheelers that roam every neighborhood in the morn…

A short trip down south to Matara, Checked out the the Dondra Head the southernmost tip of Sri Lanka.

I’m no packing guru, I don’t travel often and most/all of the times I do it’s for work.

Back in the Netherlands, didn’t get much time to look around.

I use google sheets for my personal finance work and require buying rates for foreign currencies.

Happy New Year Everyone!

This post is only valid for customers of Dialog in Sri Lanka.

Some notes on how to get a grasp of your finances and make sure you’re able to achieve what you set out.

I got my wedding pictures, a folder with a set of JPEG’s taken from a bunch of cameras.

You bring out feelings that I thought I never had, the look of love I saw in others’ eyes before that I assumed wasn’t in me.

Sometimes there isn’t much to do in Kandy, but today I just wanted a cup of coffee.

Our wedding is coming up, and I’m running out of time.

Another year around the sun, or what ever the folks call it these days.

Time goes by fast, the last time I posted on this site was in 2022.

Exploration into Euclidean Distribution and Its Musical Properties.

Song of Life is a piece of software I wrote to explore an idea I had: “What would Conway’s Game of Life sound like?”

A couple of weeks back I wrote some words “What’s good with leaders who don’t take responsibility?”.

It’s been a hard couple of years for the people of Sri Lanka, I’ve been one of the Lucy ones privileged and had a great environment to not be affected by what’s going on in this county.

It’s another year.

This story is reaching this blog two months late, at present moment I’m unable to summarize the status quo when starting this project.

The motivation for this article came naturally working on a presentation for my team on engineering process, Agile is playing a big part there.

Recently I picked up a copy of “Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker”, for the unaware it’s Kevin Mitnick’s account of his hacker journey who eventually became “the Darth Vader of the hacking world”.

Often when frustration hits me with my computing devices, those being an iMac and ThinkPad.

Late last-year(June 2020) I spoke about Serverless on TechKatha (Sri Lankan Tech Podcast).

This blog finally has an RSS feed, I welcome you to 1999.

Despite human’s living on this earth for many millennia.

I feel foolish yearning for the days of the web I never experienced.

Note: This is not new knowledge or breaking news.

At times when it comes to explaining my personal process for problem-solving I get anxious.

Due to some circumstances I wasn’t happy with my DNS setup, which was very basic I used Netlify DNS & as for Dynamic DNS, I used duckdns.org as a CNAME to a subdomain, which worked really well.

Accompanied my mother to the temple, it’s always calm and picturesque there.

Life during the lock-down is hard, It’s harder for the unfortunate who lost their jobs and is unable to work from home.

I was having troubles with my website.

My mom got me this birthday cake with questionable HTML/XML syntax.

It was one of those nights, music blurring into noise and boredom kicks in.

I always loved going to the Pettah market, the chaos, cheap tech and especially the old stuff.

Another work trip, this time to participate in [Consumer Identity World EU 2019] organized by KuppingerCole Analysts AG.

Almost everyone will say “Publishing APIs are easy, Securing them is the hard part”.

The Ministry of Digital Infrastructure and Information Technology (MDIIT) has recently published a framework for the proposed Data Protection Bill.

I had to travel for work for a PSD2 go-live whilst at WSO2.

Incorporating idempotency is an important part of building robust and predictable APIs.

Consumer Data Right known as CDR for short has its roots with the “Review into Open Banking in Australia” presented to the Australian government.

With deadlines inching close for PSD2, Implementers are ready to open up sandbox environments for developers, kickstarting a new era of financial apps.