Hi there!
My name is Rukshan, a wonderer, blogger, occasional coder and a health informatics guy.
I’m Rukshan Ranatunge, currently following my Master’s of Science degree in the field of Biomedical Informatics. I’m interested in digital health systems and achieving interoperability between digital health systems.
This is the place where I write about my musings in my everyday life, tutorials, adventures and misadventures, hot takes and everything in between. If you find my writing helpful, please leave a comment.
Latest musings
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What is health informatics? And what I do for a living
I recently started this blog to start a new year resolution for 2021, that is to post at least one blog post every week. But I have been writing ever since and blogging has become more of an addiction. Even if I have to painstaking write from by iPad. You might be wondering how I’m […]
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Somethings are never meant to be invented. The story of BlockEvent
Every few years there comes a technology that people get hyped about, everyone wants to be a specialist in that field because it appears to be the next big thing. Between 2015-2019 this was largely about bitcoins and blockchain technology. Everyone wanted to be a specialist in blockchain technology. Bitcoin was booming, ICOs were happening […]
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This community is available in the app
Yesterday’s post was an awesome one, I learned a lot in JavaScript and and I was happy to see people doing what I thought impossible. Writing a simple todo app within 280 chars, in plain js. After I finished writing the post, I wanted to share it on Reddit JavaScript community, r/javascript at the same […]
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A TO-DO app that fits in a single tweet
Sunday morning while I was scrolling through my Twitter feed one tweet caught my eye, #JavaScript Challenge: Can you make a TO-DO app within a single Tweet? (280 chars) The app should be able to add tasks, strike-through finished tasks & clear all tasks. Any general-purpose library is allowed.Starting HTML body should be empty except […]
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I just checked Yamu stats, they don’t look good. Is Google killing Yamu?
Yamu was started out as an idea in a hackathon back in 2011 or 2012 (I can’t remember the exact time), but it’s close to a decade. The original idea was to start something that was close to Uber or PickMe. But when it came out, the site was more like Yelp, reviewing places, specially […]
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Starting a blog has never been this difficult
I feel blogging is making a comeback, why? Because people are starting to realize that they can carve their own brand and be content creators, rather than just sharing your thoughts among few Facebook friends. And since not all of us are video creators, most people will be selecting blogging as their platform of choice. […]
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I just installed a content blocker on my iPhone
Recently I saw a Facebook post post where someone has monitored his data usage and found out that he is spending nearly 300mb of data everyday just for the ad content he’s getting on different websites and YouTube. I don’t know how his browsing behavior, or whether these figures are accurate, however if true a […]
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Don’t buy a .icu domain
The new .icu and .cyou domains targeting the new generation, which is a hip way to say ‘I see you’, or ‘see you’. These domain names are quite cheap, I was able to get a .icu domain for my new blog for just one US dollar, and with a renewal fee of fewer than ten […]
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The unusual pricing of electronics in Sri Lanka
I was looking to buy a new laptop and I was doing some shopping online. I was tracking the pricing of the new M1 MacBook air, since two weeks after its release, I found the first M1 MacBooks in Sri Lanka priced at Rs 245,000. Since it was out of my budget, I waited for […]
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Convocation ceremonies are fake
Recently I got to know about the virtual convocation ceremony done by the University of Kelaniya for the graduated students and the backlash that it generated among the students and social media against holding a virtual event instead of a real ceremony at the BMICH. I’m someone who does not belong to the majority, someone […]
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My Work
National Covid Health Information System
I helped in development and implementation of the National Covid Health Information System
FHIR Implementation
I’m currently engaged in implementing FHIR standards for the Ministry of Health Sri Lanka and achieve interoperability in healthcare.
Sri Lankan Open Data Portal for Health
I’m currently designing and developing the Open Data Portal for Health In Sri Lanka as part of my Master’s thesis.