I’ve always been drawn to the moon and stargazing. There’s this quiet loneliness about it, but at the same time a kind of peaceful solitude that I really crave. On September 7, as soon as the lunar eclipse started, I grabbed my Canon R6 and just kept shooting all the way through totality. This one … Continue reading Here’s To The Moon Lovers →
So this happened last night… I had been drooling over this so many years ago (like back in 2015) but just gave up because it was way over my budget for a keyboard in the first place, and the horrendous shipping and import fees would only make it even worse. I eventually forgot about it, … Continue reading Ctrl, Alt, Delight: I’ve Ordered Another Keyboard! →
The #redditBlackout in response to the outrageous API pricing from reddit and all the surrounding drama, reminded me that I didn’t share how I get my daily dose of news – This is that story. A long time ago, on a Friday evening, I created newsbeat.io so that I wouldn’t have to browse through a … Continue reading News for the Lazy →
#Jobs That Aren’t Endangered by #AI : Being Human Be Human. — Chanaka Jayamal (@seejay) February 8, 2023 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
I’m at the start of a full work week and managed to knock out a decent chunk of work this morning… Since my schedule’s totally flexible (Love you Scrapinghub!), I usually get more done later in the day, which doesn’t leave me much time to unwind after. (But honestly, with my hours spread out like … Continue reading Monday morning: Fighting Stronger →
Update: This guy shat the bed. If you’ve seen me on Facebook, you’d know how I am bombarding my friends with posts on the upcoming presidential election in Sri Lanka. If you haven’t decided to vote Gotabaya yet, you probably will once you read the following piece published back in 2010 in The Manila Times … Continue reading Gotabaya – Return of the Jedi →
Lisbon won “Europe’s Leading City Destination 2018” award and guess where Scrapinghub decided to hold our next meetup? Yes, You guessed it right, We met again in Lisbon, Portugal back in November 2018 at the Scrapinghub annual get together. And we all spent about a week in one of the coolest hotels in Europe, Hotel … Continue reading Palácio Estoril : Meeting my team at the James Bond Hotel →
Yes, you read it right! After almost 3 years of working together totally remote, I finally got to meet my awesome colleagues at Scrapinghub back in November 2017 when we had our first ever company get together in Estepona, Spain. Estepona Sunrises are to die for. So my flight was around 10:30 pm and I … Continue reading Me, My Team and The Gran Hotel Elba Estepona →
Just stumbled across this for the millionth time and figured I’d stash a backup here, just in case the Vogons are serious about that intergalactic highway. https://xkcd.com/162/
One of the most useful things for me with the Xiaomi Mi Band is the sleep tracker. I check my sleep data pretty much every morning, and it helps me figure out if I got enough rest the night before and what to do if when I haven’t. I’ve known for a long time that … Continue reading about:sleep (or lack thereof) →