TLS, Sinhala Bugs, and My Fever Dream for Sri Lanka

August 21, 2024 Lehan Edirisinghe

I'm deep in build mode here, fixing translation bugs, thinking through server-side rendering, and obsessing over how to make my site feel cleaner, shorter, and more Apple-like. At the same time, I keep slipping into a larger political fantasy about Sri Lanka, beauty, power, Sheryl Sandberg, and what it would mean to build something world-class out of this place. The payoff is seeing my webapp brain and my country-scale ambition running at full voltage in the same night.

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VoteLehan.com Running on TLS 1.2 and 1.3

4:30 p.m. (b)

My website is up on tls 1.2 and 1.3 only, with https://votelehan.com

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Admiring a Dude and Saying I Believe in Human Rights

4:30 p.m. (c)

I love this dude. I'm not gay. But if I was, I am going to say, he probably would have found the way to my heart. With these deserts. I'm not going to say my you know or the sweet tooth. Hehehe

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I believe in human rights.

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Blastoise and Kyogre Using Water Spout in Pokémon

6:15 p.m. (c)

In Pokemon, my Blastoise and Kyogre would use Water Spout

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Clearing the Cache Failed to Translate to Sinhalese

10:45 p.m. (d)

Clearing the cache didn't work to translate to Sinhalese

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Browser Cache Trouble and Steve Jobs Getting Angry

10:45 p.m. (e)

I dunno, it is buggy. It didn't translate the Help page to Sinhalese. I dunno. It's to do with the way a browser stores a session cache and cookies.

This Steve Jobs. Dude was pissed off. He was doing a "small presentation" and something didn't work or load. He was so mad.

I mean, the guy must've glared angrily at someone.

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A Django Translation Bug, Jonathan and a Steve Jobs Joke

10:45 p.m. (f)

The issue might be that because it's server side rendering, with django, it isn't exactly, a javascript, we fetch and retrieve Sinhala version, so it f***s up. I asked Jonathan███████ to do this very small, humble task, and he said he didn't care about our language issues and I told him, we had to let him go. No, I'm just lying. It's my fault. He was apparently there for Steve's small opening event.

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Saying I Love Chinese People

11:00 p.m.

I love Chinese people.

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Saying We Are Both Happy in Chinese

11:00 p.m. (b)

我也很高兴

你很高兴😄

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Liking an Iconic Suit

11:00 p.m. (c)

I like this suit. Very iconic.

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Sheryl Sandberg and a $50,000 Sri Lankan GDP Goal

11:00 p.m. (f)

I'm thinking of $50,000 GDP per capita because Sheryl Sandberg went into Google and Facebook, when they had a few hundred millions

And she turned them into trillion dollar businesses

So Sri Lanka is easy for her.

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Ranking Election Candidates by Looks

11:00 p.m. (g)

Such a pretty boy

I think in this election, with respect to looks

Hehehe

Tier 1 / God tier is probably Dilith and me

And then Tier 2 is Sajith and Namal

Tier 3 is Ranil and Anura

Tier 4 is that "███████████████ Dhammika", Chandrasiri Mayakaduwa

Tier 5 is Janaka who has Rs 30,000,000 to waste

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Calling Lehan a Tier Zero Pretty Boy

11:15 p.m.

Lehan's a pretty boy

I had a lot of good plastic surgeons

When I die one day, they're going to have Hugh Jackman sing

Quiet Please, there's a Man on Stage

And bla bla bla

And then donate me to the plastic recycling charities

Hehehe

My voters

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes-Benz, uh

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I'm the Tier 0 / S / S++ God tier

Dilith is Tier 1 maybe

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Laughing With a Jesus Christ Exclamation

11:15 p.m. (b)

Jesus f***ing Christ hehehe

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Saying Even This Does Not Work

11:30 p.m. (e)

Even this doesn't work

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Apple-Style Minimalism and a Few Succinct Lines

11:30 p.m. (f)

Anyway. I strongly prefer to look at it this way. Just a few lines, to succinctly, explain what I want to convey. This is the Apple way of doing it. Jonathan Hirshon, and some of the people at the secretive Apple university or design think tank, they also admired me for it.

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Trying to Write Simply Like Apple Design

11:30 p.m. (g)

This Jonathan Seff (hopefully) likes the way I am so minimalist

As it's the way Apple designs things

I try to say it in the most simple way possible

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Preferring Short Text Over Lengthy Paragraphs

11:30 p.m. (h)

Even here.

I prefer this. Than to write lengthy paragraphs explaining it. I prefer it super short, so that it is easier.

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Comparing the Election to Any% Speedruns

11:45 p.m. (b)

The way you have to understand this election is like this

See, there are these few video gamers like Any%

They can waltz through a game in hours

A game that pro players will take days to finish

They will make history

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Saying There Will Never Be Another Sheryl Sandberg

11:45 p.m. (c)

There's these few people like Sheryl

There's just one

After her, there will never be another

Madonna, Britney, Taylor

But never another Sandberg

There will never be another Larry Summers

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A Fever Dream Vision for Sri Lanka

11:45 p.m. (d)

This time

This vision I got for Sri Lanka

It's

It's a..

Fever dream high in the quiet of the night

You know that I caught it

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A Fragment About Something Bad With a Price

11:45 p.m. (e)

████bad███

█████████ with a price

You ████ ████ I bought it

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