Hello there, my name is Rukshan. I’m a health informatics spcialist, currently
living in Switzerland.
I started as a clinician, and with a background in digital health,
I transitioned to a world of digital health. I love academia and I write papers
on digital health research
Because of my love to computers and programming,
and mostly I spend my time coding on my laptop
making new things.
This is my blog where I write about things that I’m interested about, my ideas,
travels, and occational rants. I hope you would enjoy reading this as much as
I enjoy writing.
I have been working on a small side project where I have gone full CI/CD with GitHub Container Registry. I write the code in JavaScript and then push the code to my repo, and a GitHub Action will create a Docker container and then publish it to the Container Registry. From the registry, I am able to pull and deploy it in the VPS of my cloud provider.
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We sometimes tend to start projects where we have no idea whether they will work or not.
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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. At that time there was the fire-house a global timeline to see all the tweets in real-time because there were only a few Twitter users at the time.
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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.
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Spoiler before anyone gets too excited, “hacking” in this context refers to the creative and collaborative process of rapidly developing innovative solutions to specific problems or challenges.
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Google moved to manifest version 3 for Chrome extensions in 2024, and will slowly phase out the manifest version 2 extensions from the Chrome app store. If you go to a Chrome extension that is based on manifest version 2, you will see the following warning appearing at the top of the extension store below the extension name.
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I have been blogging for nearly 15 years now—gosh, I feel so old. Like most, I started on Blogger and then moved to WordPress.com. From WordPress, I moved to Tumblr, to Medium, and to Jekyll for a short period and then a self-hosted WordPress. Sometimes, I wonder why Google is still keeping Blogger alive. I know people are still using it. But Google killed Google Reader when people were still using it and loving it.
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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 expenses that will add up at the end of your tour.
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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. I never thought I’d be able to write a publication under 200 words, the very idea of expressing something meaningful in such a short number of words was something that I could not agree with.
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Google when it first came out as a search engine was innovative in so many different aspects from search engines that preceded Google. From better ranking algorithm over simply counting keywords, cleaner UI with no banner ads or popups, rather than trying to keep users on their website Google just provided a better search experience overall.
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