How to setup SCSS on your computer

SCSS is a CSS pre-processor. By using a pre-processor like SCSS you can easily write simple and elegant CSS. You also have added advantage of variables, arithmetic operations and more. And overall writing sass can be more productive than writing simple CSS. ...

August 22, 2021 · Rukshan

Install a Community Server On VSCode

In my previous post, I wrote about how I manually deployed a working GlassFish web server for Java based web apps. ...

August 11, 2021 · Rukshan

How to setup Glassfish server for Java web app deployment

Recently I had to locally run a JavaEE web app so I can contribute to the project. However, it was my first time trying to run a Java web app locally, or even remotely. I know it was easy to deploy it using NetBeans because it has been developed with NetBeans and Glassfish. However, I wanted to run it without NetBeans because I don’t have NetBeans setup on my computer and I NetBeans currently doesn’t have the native M1 support. ...

August 7, 2021 · Rukshan

Coming Full Circle

This was initially posted as a thread on Twitter, but I decided to add some context and expand it more on the blog. ...

August 5, 2021 · Rukshan

My Journey In Deleting Facebook and Instagram Accounts

In April I made a decision that I wanted to make for a very long time. Delete my Facebook and Instagram accounts. I wanted to delete my Facebook and IG accounts for a while. I have even applied to delete my account several times in the past, only to reactivate it within few days. However, this time it was different. I was committed. ...

July 22, 2021 · Rukshan

Buddhism and Meditation Is Not The Same.

Today I got to read a post titled “When Buddhism Goes Bad”, the title incised me to read it. Even though I was born as a Buddhist I never gave Buddhism much of a thought other than trying to pass my exam in region at school. Then since I learned biology, and had interest in technology for almost 30 years the only religion I believed was science. ...

July 20, 2021 · Rukshan

Are you ashamed to share your email address?

I created my email address when Gmail was still an invitation only platform, and I was 15 at that time. I created a short, somewhat funny, and hard to spell email address by using my initials and how my fiends used to call me at school. ...

July 18, 2021 · Rukshan

3 Important Lessons I Learnt Working At A Covid-19 ICU

I’m writing a blog post after a very long time. This is because I was appointed to work at a COVID-19 intensive care unit for 2 months, and I was busy working there. When I started my work in May the COVID-19 cases were on the rise, and there were not enough doctors to take care of them. So me and some of my colleagues were taken out from our routine course-work from my Health Informatics MSc and was sent to different treatment centers around the country to take care of the rising COVID-19 case load. ...

July 16, 2021 · Rukshan

Why JavaScript dialogs (alert/prompt/confirm) are not widely used?

Recently I started working on a small open-source project side project with Vue, and I wanted to create yes/no dialog (basically a model) which will show a notification with a confirm and cancel button. So users can confirm or cancel an event. ...

June 15, 2021 · Rukshan

Clones are good

Replit was a service that I was using as a tool where my colleagues were able to run some code snippets online to learn some concepts which I wanted to teach. ...

June 8, 2021 · Rukshan