Rukshan's Blog

Randoms

I do development for one week and marketing and documentation for one week

I know the advice is to find a co-founder. But what if you can’t find a co-founder? Yes, having a co-founder is great. But there are companies that are founded by solo-founders who went on to become billion or million…

Rukshan
February 26, 2021

Facebook is combining Messenger and Instagram messaging

Today I received this popup notifying me that soon people using Instagram will be able to find and message me on Facebook. It appears that your Messenger inbox will be a universal inbox where you can reply to both instagram…

Rukshan
February 24, 2021

Javascript, Tutorials

How to host your NuxtJS in 10 steps

I first started using NuxtJS one year ago, when I tried to make a platform for travellers to easily find and book villas online. But unlike other popular booking services, I was targeting villas that did not have an online…

Rukshan
February 23, 2021

Randoms

Don’t allow VSCode to auto fetch from repos

Recently I had a very annoying experience using VSCode. I use git to track changes of my work, and I push important changes to my GitHub repo. During the past 1 month I was hacking a small side project during…

Rukshan
February 21, 2021

Randoms

They launched a website to register covid vaccinations, but it only lasted one week

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. Last November, within days after launching a covid tracker by the government, several people were…

Rukshan
February 17, 2021

Startups

Always try to be a monopoly

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. Our main target group was people and companies who wanted to have a cacti,…

Rukshan
February 13, 2021

Hackers briefly took over the Google.lk domain

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. To be clear the hackers did not took…

Rukshan
February 6, 2021

Would you pay me if I built a web browser?

Google recently announced their Q4 results, and it seems almost everyone is having a great Q4 from Facebook, to Amazon to Google. I know most of us hate ads, but it’s this ad money that powers Googles free services, including…

Rukshan
February 3, 2021

Why Google needs to build an open chat client like Element

Google recently blocked the Matrix based chat app Element from the Play Store sighting sexual content on the platform. It’s really hard to define the explanation because WhatsApp, Telegram users of other chat clients also share the same content. Telegram…

Rukshan
January 31, 2021
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Suggest me a password

Recently this post making rounds on some of the dev community groups which I’m a part of on Facebook. These are the rules of a banking website when we are to create a new account or change our passwords. And…

Rukshan
January 28, 2021