Lakshitha de Silva
@lakshithadesilva.bsky.social
Computing PhD from @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Research Software Engineer | Techie | Constant learner
Loves simplicity, coding, science, nature, music, nice humans & dogs
Forever in blue jeans 🎶
Research Software Engineer | Techie | Constant learner
Loves simplicity, coding, science, nature, music, nice humans & dogs
Forever in blue jeans 🎶
When your OS thinks it's a web browser ffs!
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
When your OS thinks it's a web browser ffs!
A related studying by METR
metr.org/blog/2025-07...
metr.org/blog/2025-07...
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find th...
metr.org
July 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A related studying by METR
metr.org/blog/2025-07...
metr.org/blog/2025-07...
Wedding crashers 🦆😍
May 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Wedding crashers 🦆😍
Or close shop, because you cannot deliver on the inflated promises you made to customers. E.g. builder.ai -- I wont be surprised to see more of the bubble bursting.
Builder
builder.ai
May 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Or close shop, because you cannot deliver on the inflated promises you made to customers. E.g. builder.ai -- I wont be surprised to see more of the bubble bursting.
EU's own CVE database is now fully operational: www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/e...
EU bug database fully operational as US slashes infosec
: EUVD comes into play not a moment too soon
www.theregister.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
EU's own CVE database is now fully operational: www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/e...
I built apps for Windows CE around 2002/3 time. It was rock solid as the kernel was rewritten from scratch for mobile and was supported by brilliant dev tooling. Had Balmer realised the impending mobile revolution and capitalised on Windows CE, iPhone would nowhere to be seen today. So idiotic!
May 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I built apps for Windows CE around 2002/3 time. It was rock solid as the kernel was rewritten from scratch for mobile and was supported by brilliant dev tooling. Had Balmer realised the impending mobile revolution and capitalised on Windows CE, iPhone would nowhere to be seen today. So idiotic!
This and Uncle Bob's Clean Code are my favourite software engineering books, after 'The C Programming Language', that is ;)
May 8, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This and Uncle Bob's Clean Code are my favourite software engineering books, after 'The C Programming Language', that is ;)
Thank you, appreciate much!
May 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Thank you, appreciate much!
Congrats and well earned!
April 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Congrats and well earned!
When someone who doesn't write a line of code tells us this is going to be the future of tech, I'd take it with a pinch of salt ;)
April 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
When someone who doesn't write a line of code tells us this is going to be the future of tech, I'd take it with a pinch of salt ;)
If we go back to the architectural foundations upon which Linux was built, a lot of it was done at Bell Labs when Unix was being developed (e.g. piping).
Hard to imagine the impact of contributions of folks like Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie that drives all our tech.
Hard to imagine the impact of contributions of folks like Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie that drives all our tech.
March 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If we go back to the architectural foundations upon which Linux was built, a lot of it was done at Bell Labs when Unix was being developed (e.g. piping).
Hard to imagine the impact of contributions of folks like Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie that drives all our tech.
Hard to imagine the impact of contributions of folks like Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie that drives all our tech.
Nicely done Gergely. I think its imperative these critical cloud/infra providers publish postmortem reports as part of their service to clients.
February 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Nicely done Gergely. I think its imperative these critical cloud/infra providers publish postmortem reports as part of their service to clients.
Slack shouldn't boast about taking the high-road when competing with rivals. They did a deal with Atlassian to acquire HipChat and killed it immediately.
February 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Slack shouldn't boast about taking the high-road when competing with rivals. They did a deal with Atlassian to acquire HipChat and killed it immediately.
I think so. Likely that git was heavily influenced by BitKeeper that was used for Linux kernel dev before losing the license for some reason
January 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I think so. Likely that git was heavily influenced by BitKeeper that was used for Linux kernel dev before losing the license for some reason
Let's not forget that the core capability of GitHub is built on 'git', a free and open source tool. Sc considerable to credit should go to the git creators including Linus Torvalds.
January 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Let's not forget that the core capability of GitHub is built on 'git', a free and open source tool. Sc considerable to credit should go to the git creators including Linus Torvalds.
Excessive greed usually trumps good judgement, let alone intelligence, morality, principles, values, etc.
January 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Excessive greed usually trumps good judgement, let alone intelligence, morality, principles, values, etc.
Jensen Huang doing a nice explanation about the Agentic AI strategy of Nvidia.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Konstantin Cvetanov on LinkedIn: Best 1-minute explanation of Agentic AI workflows with NVIDIA NIM. Worth…
Best 1-minute explanation of Agentic AI workflows with NVIDIA NIM. Worth the listen!
www.linkedin.com
December 14, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Jensen Huang doing a nice explanation about the Agentic AI strategy of Nvidia.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Seconded, as well.
December 13, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Seconded, as well.
Any specific reasons why those hiring managers feel unhappy about ex-Googlers? Is it possibly because of -
1) cultural/organisational misfits or attitude issues?
2) paying too much attention to the 'ex-Google' label and not evaluating the candidate properly?
1) cultural/organisational misfits or attitude issues?
2) paying too much attention to the 'ex-Google' label and not evaluating the candidate properly?
November 19, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Any specific reasons why those hiring managers feel unhappy about ex-Googlers? Is it possibly because of -
1) cultural/organisational misfits or attitude issues?
2) paying too much attention to the 'ex-Google' label and not evaluating the candidate properly?
1) cultural/organisational misfits or attitude issues?
2) paying too much attention to the 'ex-Google' label and not evaluating the candidate properly?
This reminds me when a lot of software engineers called themselves "web developers". And so was this guy ....
November 15, 2024 at 2:01 PM
This reminds me when a lot of software engineers called themselves "web developers". And so was this guy ....
This is the first Neil Diamond record I listened to. I was 11 years old. I borrowed it from my neighbour and was immediately hooked on "Both Sides Now". I have been a Neil Diamond fan since. The soundtrack of my life wouldn't be complete without your amazing and uplifting music Neil. So, thank you.
November 14, 2024 at 10:36 PM
This is the first Neil Diamond record I listened to. I was 11 years old. I borrowed it from my neighbour and was immediately hooked on "Both Sides Now". I have been a Neil Diamond fan since. The soundtrack of my life wouldn't be complete without your amazing and uplifting music Neil. So, thank you.