TLS, Sinhala Bugs, and My Fever Dream for Sri Lanka
ஆகஸ்டு 21, 2024
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.
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.
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.
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