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.
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
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
***
I believe in human rights.
Blastoise and Kyogre Using Water Spout in Pokémon
6:15 p.m. (c)
In Pokemon, my Blastoise and Kyogre would use Water Spout
Clearing the Cache Failed to Translate to Sinhalese
10:45 p.m. (d)
Clearing the cache didn't work to translate to Sinhalese
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.
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.
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.
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
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
***
I'm the Tier 0 / S / S++ God tier
Dilith is Tier 1 maybe
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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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