Hi there you are reading Rukshan’s bolg 👋

Spoiler before anyone gets too excited, “hacking” in this context refers to the creative and collaborative process of rapidly developing innovative solutions to specific problems or challenges. ...

Google moved to manifest version 3 for Chrome extensions in 2024, and will slowly phase out the manifest version 2 extensions from the Chrome app store. If you go to a Chrome extension that is based on manifest version 2, you will see the following warning appearing at the top of the extension store below the extension name. ...

I have been blogging for nearly 15 years now—gosh, I feel so old. Like most, I started on Blogger and then moved to WordPress.com. From WordPress, I moved to Tumblr, to Medium, and to Jekyll for a short period and then a self-hosted WordPress. Sometimes, I wonder why Google is still keeping Blogger alive. I know people are still using it. But Google killed Google Reader when people were still using it and loving it. ...

Attending a conference can be an expensive thing to do, with lots of expenses, for example, the travel cost, the ticket for the conference, the food, and lodging are some of the main expenses you will have to pay, on top of that there will be hidden small expenses that will add up at the end of your tour. ...

Few years ago I was someone was not interested in academia, I felt as if people are rehashing the same scientific topic in different ways, or publishing every minute thing just to add up to their pile of publications. I never thought I’d be able to write a publication under 200 words, the very idea of expressing something meaningful in such a short number of words was something that I could not agree with. ...

Google when it first came out as a search engine was innovative in so many different aspects from search engines that preceded Google. From better ranking algorithm over simply counting keywords, cleaner UI with no banner ads or popups, rather than trying to keep users on their website Google just provided a better search experience overall. ...

The month of May ended me attending the Geneva digital health day, and event following the Geneva health forum. The event was at Campus Biotech, where people get together to talk about the future on digital health. ...

I feel as if the AI hype has peeked, and I am very skeptical about the AI wave that’s happening where majority of the ideas are chatGPT wrappers.

I have never been interested in academia and research. I always felt research and academia, or a majority of what people publish is just to fill their profiles with the number of publications. When I think about research, I always think about doing research as something groundbreaking. I remember telling colleagues (and I still do) to read the Page Rank algorithm [link, link 2] publication that formed the backbone of Google search in the beginning. I wanted every research or publication to be something like Page Rank. ...

I’ve not been able to write something new lately, in fact, I think this is the first post of the year. So happy new year 2024, insert :tada: emoji. So I’ve been pretty much busy with work, and travelling, networking at conferences, the usual. At the start of 2023, I had never left Sri Lanka in my whole life, but by the end of 2023, I’d visited 5 different countries, including the US. ...