Rukshan's Blog

Twitter please don’t ruin my timeline

Today I logged in to check my Twitter feed. However, today I saw something different, my Twitter feed was not the same. There were tweets from people I don’t know, or from topics I’m not interested in on their feed.…

Rukshan
December 27, 2020

Randoms

My lost opportunity to become a millionaire

Recently one of my friends shared a link in one of our groups, it’s a Telegram bot that is supposed to generate Tron tokens, and he needed 10 referrals to withdraw his tokens. I’ve some friends who are interred in…

Rukshan
December 25, 2020

Health Informatics

How to sort a list of words? The bucket sorting method

In the last post I said that I just started my MSc in health informs. The first semester has five modules, one of those modules is about object oriented programming. The object oriented programming module starts with introduction to programming,…

Rukshan
December 24, 2020

Health Informatics

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…

Rukshan
December 23, 2020

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.…

Rukshan
December 23, 2020

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…

Rukshan
December 22, 2020
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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…

Rukshan
December 21, 2020
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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…

Rukshan
December 20, 2020

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…

Rukshan
December 18, 2020
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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…

Rukshan
December 17, 2020