laktek

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• Three Weeks in Japan with a Toddler

  by laktek on 5/30/2025, 10:34 AM with 3 comments

• Back to Personal Website

  by laktek on 8/5/2024, 9:28 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: I created a bedtime story for my son using GPT-3 and DALL-E

  by laktek on 8/11/2022, 6:17 PM with 2 comments

• Show HN: PDF.cool – API for converting web pages to PDF

  by laktek on 11/10/2017, 10:47 PM with 3 comments

• Show HN: PDF.cool – HTML to PDF Conversion API

  by laktek on 11/10/2017, 12:20 PM with 0 comments

• by laktek on 11/10/2017, 10:14 AM with comments

• Show HN: Screen.rip – API for capturing web screenshots

  by laktek on 10/19/2017, 12:09 PM with 120 comments

• Show HN: Screen.rip – Programmable API for capturing web screenshots

  by laktek on 10/18/2017, 10:42 PM with 0 comments

• by laktek on 10/18/2017, 8:04 PM with comments

• by laktek on 10/18/2017, 7:26 PM with comments

• by laktek on 9/19/2017, 6:11 PM with comments

• What I learned building Page.REST – from an idea to paying customers in 7 days

  by laktek on 9/14/2017, 2:38 PM with 0 comments

• What I learned building Page.REST

  by laktek on 9/13/2017, 11:46 PM with 0 comments

• What I learned building Page.REST – from an idea to paying customers in 7 days

  by laktek on 9/13/2017, 6:03 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Page.REST – An API to fetch details from a web page as JSON

  by laktek on 9/7/2017, 4:15 AM with 32 comments

• by laktek on 9/7/2017, 2:32 AM with comments

• 50 Sydney Startups to Watch in 2017

  by laktek on 7/18/2017, 12:45 AM with 0 comments

• Tesla Powerpack to Enable Large Scale Sustainable Energy to South Australia

  by laktek on 7/7/2017, 3:39 AM with 0 comments

• Apollo: Open platform for autonomous driving industry

  by laktek on 7/6/2017, 6:08 AM with 1 comments

• Metrics that matter

  by laktek on 3/11/2017, 5:02 AM with 0 comments

• Next wave of SaaS

  by laktek on 1/12/2017, 12:16 PM with 0 comments

• Next wave of SaaS

  by laktek on 1/12/2017, 5:44 AM with 5 comments

• Trello Ends the First Wave of SaaS

  by laktek on 1/11/2017, 4:04 AM with 1 comments

• by laktek on 1/11/2017, 4:01 AM with comments

• End of the first wave of SaaS

  by laktek on 1/11/2017, 12:00 AM with 0 comments

• by laktek on 12/24/2016, 11:29 AM with comments

• by laktek on 12/19/2016, 3:16 PM with comments

• Show HN: Pragma – An easy way to build web sites from JSON documents

  by laktek on 12/15/2016, 3:46 PM with 0 comments

• by laktek on 12/10/2016, 4:48 PM with comments

• Show HN: Pragma

  by laktek on 11/29/2016, 9:35 PM with 1 comments

• What I learnt at Atlassian

  by laktek on 10/1/2016, 9:07 AM with 0 comments

• Ways to Fund Your Small Business When You Need It

  by laktek on 8/18/2014, 1:20 PM with 0 comments

• Learning Clojure with Nitrous.IO

  by laktek on 5/7/2014, 2:16 AM with 1 comments

• by laktek on 4/12/2013, 6:19 AM with comments

• The Next Generation is Here

  by laktek on 1/7/2013, 2:49 AM with 0 comments

• The Next Generation is Here

  by laktek on 1/6/2013, 8:24 PM with 0 comments

• Revisiting JavaScript Objects

  by laktek on 12/31/2012, 5:06 AM with 11 comments

• by laktek on 12/31/2012, 1:07 AM with comments

• by laktek on 12/30/2012, 1:27 PM with comments

• Revisiting JavaScript Objects

  by laktek on 12/30/2012, 3:00 AM with 2 comments

• by laktek on 12/30/2012, 12:59 AM with comments

• by laktek on 12/29/2012, 11:40 PM with comments

• by laktek on 12/29/2012, 5:41 PM with comments

• Build your blog with Punch

  by laktek on 11/26/2012, 12:30 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Fast, extendable boilerplate to build your blog

  by laktek on 11/26/2012, 8:16 AM with 0 comments

• by laktek on 11/26/2012, 6:03 AM with comments

• by laktek on 11/26/2012, 5:19 AM with comments

• by laktek on 11/14/2012, 3:38 PM with comments

• Rapid Prototyping: Rough to Ready

  by laktek on 11/13/2012, 12:45 AM with 0 comments

• by laktek on 11/13/2012, 12:43 AM with comments

• Embrace the Static Web with Punch

  by laktek on 11/4/2012, 2:53 PM with 44 comments

• by laktek on 11/4/2012, 1:00 PM with comments

• by laktek on 11/4/2012, 12:57 PM with comments

• by laktek on 10/8/2012, 1:41 AM with comments

• Simple Helper to Extract Values from a String

  by laktek on 10/4/2012, 8:30 AM with 48 comments

• by laktek on 9/21/2012, 5:22 PM with comments

• by laktek on 9/20/2012, 10:05 PM with comments

• by laktek on 9/19/2012, 12:25 AM with comments

• Punch Reloaded

  by laktek on 9/18/2012, 7:47 PM with 0 comments

• Punch Reloaded

  by laktek on 9/18/2012, 4:02 PM with 0 comments

• by laktek on 9/18/2012, 3:02 PM with comments

• by laktek on 9/18/2012, 1:57 PM with comments

• by laktek on 9/18/2012, 12:28 PM with comments

• by laktek on 9/18/2012, 10:15 AM with comments

• Distraction Free Writing with Vim

  by laktek on 9/5/2012, 6:40 AM with 13 comments

• Distraction Free Writing with Vim

  by laktek on 9/5/2012, 1:18 AM with 1 comments

• SPDY for Rest of Us

  by laktek on 7/11/2012, 12:36 AM with 22 comments

• SPDY for Rest of Us

  by laktek on 7/10/2012, 5:57 PM with 0 comments

• Punch Status - Instant Previews, Easy Publishing & More

  by laktek on 7/2/2012, 2:27 AM with 0 comments

• JQuery Smart AutoComplete

  by laktek on 6/7/2012, 4:53 AM with 0 comments

• Don't Fret Over Client-Side Rendering

  by laktek on 5/31/2012, 12:19 AM with 0 comments

• Don't Fret Over Client-Side Rendering

  by laktek on 5/30/2012, 8:37 PM with 0 comments

• Winning People with Code

  by laktek on 5/23/2012, 3:18 PM with 0 comments

• Rapidly Prototyping Web Applications with Punch

  by laktek on 5/17/2012, 3:19 PM with 0 comments

• Rapidly Prototyping Web Applications with Punch

  by laktek on 5/17/2012, 10:59 AM with 0 comments

• Create Quick HTML5 Presentations with Punch

  by laktek on 4/28/2012, 3:47 PM with 4 comments

• Create Quick HTML5 Presentations with Punch

  by laktek on 4/28/2012, 3:46 AM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Punch - A Fun and Easy Way to Build Modern Websites

  by laktek on 4/19/2012, 10:33 AM with 33 comments

• Concurrency is not Parallelism (it's better)

  by laktek on 4/13/2012, 3:39 AM with 1 comments

• A Few cURL Tips for Daily Use

  by laktek on 3/12/2012, 2:18 PM with 0 comments

• Functions in Go

  by laktek on 2/23/2012, 7:38 AM with 0 comments

• Learning Go - Interfaces & Reflections

  by laktek on 2/13/2012, 2:06 PM with 0 comments

• An Introduction to Interfaces in Golang

  by laktek on 2/13/2012, 11:34 AM with 0 comments

• Stack on Go - A Wrapper for Stack Exchange API

  by laktek on 2/7/2012, 2:12 PM with 0 comments

• Stack on Go - A Wrapper for Stack Exchange API

  by laktek on 2/7/2012, 4:58 AM with 0 comments

• Understanding Types in Golang

  by laktek on 1/27/2012, 8:12 AM with 2 comments

• Different flavors of JavaScript

  by laktek on 1/19/2012, 4:27 PM with 0 comments

• Different flavors of JavaScript

  by laktek on 1/19/2012, 8:57 AM with 0 comments

• Learning Go - Constants & Iota

  by laktek on 1/12/2012, 3:53 PM with 0 comments

• Learning Go

  by laktek on 1/5/2012, 5:45 AM with 0 comments

• Reviewing My 2011

  by laktek on 12/30/2011, 10:22 AM with 0 comments

• Introducing Sugarless - A Functional & Context Oriented way to write JavaScript

  by laktek on 12/21/2011, 4:29 PM with 16 comments

• After Graduation

  by laktek on 12/15/2011, 5:18 AM with 0 comments

• Basic Patterns for Everyday Programming

  by laktek on 11/23/2011, 5:34 AM with 23 comments

• Why and How I Revamped My Blog

  by laktek on 11/18/2011, 6:47 PM with 0 comments

• Stripe for non-developers

  by laktek on 10/12/2011, 12:19 PM with 0 comments

• Thank You, Steve

  by laktek on 10/6/2011, 1:08 AM with 0 comments

• Creating asynchronous web services with Goliath

  by laktek on 8/24/2011, 7:06 AM with 0 comments

• Smarter way to track your Time and Expenses

  by laktek on 7/15/2011, 12:54 PM with 0 comments

• The Right Price

  by laktek on 5/23/2011, 12:28 PM with 0 comments

• Hackers Gonna Hack

  by laktek on 4/28/2011, 9:54 AM with 3 comments

• Shame your non-paying clients in public

  by laktek on 4/1/2011, 10:41 AM with 3 comments

• Our Social Media Marketing Strategy

  by laktek on 3/30/2011, 12:16 PM with -1 comments

• Small is Small

  by laktek on 3/19/2011, 3:54 AM with 0 comments

• jQuery Smart AutoComplete

  by laktek on 3/4/2011, 12:33 AM with 0 comments

• by laktek on 3/3/2011, 11:51 PM with comments

• Introducing jQuery Smart AutoComplete…

  by laktek on 3/3/2011, 5:37 PM with 0 comments

• Understanding Prototypical Inheritance in JavaScript

  by laktek on 2/2/2011, 9:18 AM with 12 comments

• JQuery isBlank()

  by laktek on 1/7/2011, 5:07 PM with 0 comments

• Building Modular Web Apps with Rack & Sinatra

  by laktek on 12/23/2010, 6:21 AM with 3 comments

• SSL is now mandantory in CurdBee

  by laktek on 12/13/2010, 7:25 PM with 0 comments

• by laktek on 12/6/2010, 9:47 AM with comments

• CurdBee Mobile – Web or App? We Choose Both

  by laktek on 10/25/2010, 5:35 PM with 0 comments

• The Best Role Model of Our Time

  by laktek on 7/24/2010, 2:28 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Anyone interested in buying hackruby.com

  by laktek on 6/22/2010, 11:25 PM with 0 comments

• Handy Git commands that save my day

  by laktek on 6/5/2010, 6:06 AM with 14 comments

• Are you creating software to impress one person?

  by laktek on 5/30/2010, 10:31 AM with 0 comments

• How I built a Real-time Collaborative Editor with Web Sockets, Node.js & Redis

  by laktek on 5/26/2010, 12:07 AM with 16 comments

• Implementing Web Socket servers with Node.js has become whole lot easy

  by laktek on 5/5/2010, 1:48 AM with 0 comments

• How I saved $1932 in ONE hour…

  by laktek on 3/3/2010, 6:17 AM with 3 comments

• Building Real-time web apps with Rails3

  by laktek on 2/17/2010, 12:47 AM with 0 comments

• Love reviews and feedbacks on my project

  by laktek on 2/11/2010, 6:05 PM with 0 comments

• What is PubSubHubbub? (video)

  by laktek on 2/11/2010, 8:47 AM with 0 comments

• Why Design Can’t be Billed by the Hour

  by laktek on 2/3/2010, 3:06 PM with 1 comments

• Interesting Technologies for Web App Developers in 2010

  by laktek on 1/3/2010, 4:20 PM with 0 comments

• NASA uses GIT as the SCM for their Open Projects

  by laktek on 1/3/2010, 3:34 PM with 11 comments

• Marketing Inbound

  by laktek on 1/3/2010, 1:42 AM with 0 comments

• Simplicity is Complicated

  by laktek on 10/30/2009, 1:35 AM with 10 comments

• How to name a chicken sandwich: thoughts for branders

  by laktek on 10/19/2009, 9:19 PM with 1 comments

• Sri Lankan company attempts new take on the Online Travel experience

  by laktek on 9/15/2009, 9:49 AM with 0 comments

• Create Your Own Programming Language (Book)

  by laktek on 9/9/2009, 2:05 PM with 64 comments

• JQTouch - jQuery plugin for mobile web development

  by laktek on 8/31/2009, 3:14 PM with 26 comments

• Microsoft identifies 37Signals and Ruby on Rails as competitors

  by laktek on 8/5/2009, 9:21 PM with 5 comments

• Phuby : All your PHP belongs to me

  by laktek on 8/3/2009, 2:11 AM with 3 comments

• Future of the Threading and Garbage Collection in Ruby

  by laktek on 8/1/2009, 3:41 PM with 0 comments

• Useful kernel and driver performance tweaks for your Linux server

  by laktek on 7/28/2009, 12:34 PM with 3 comments

• Pro Git - CC licensed book on Git by Scott Chacon

  by laktek on 7/27/2009, 3:39 PM with 25 comments

• How to invoice for design work - a quick guide

  by laktek on 7/19/2009, 4:41 PM with 8 comments

• Ruby on Rails default templates now comes with HTML5 doctype

  by laktek on 7/12/2009, 3:58 PM with 20 comments

• When things aren’t working, think “smarter” not “louder”.

  by laktek on 7/11/2009, 4:38 PM with 10 comments

• Six virtues of being an IT undergrad…(in Sri Lanka)

  by laktek on 7/9/2009, 10:17 AM with 0 comments

• Start Implementing HTML5 Today

  by laktek on 6/29/2009, 12:18 PM with 11 comments

• Behind The App: Curdbee - sweet and simple billing

  by laktek on 6/15/2009, 2:26 PM with 1 comments

• ActiveRecord Querying: Be Smart and Vigilant

  by laktek on 6/14/2009, 3:45 AM with 0 comments

• 50+ Ruby-related Blogs to Read

  by laktek on 3/12/2009, 7:25 AM with 0 comments

• The Second Age of SMEs

  by laktek on 3/3/2009, 5:46 PM with -1 comments

• Found in Space

  by laktek on 2/18/2009, 11:23 PM with 0 comments

• How To Lose Your Users and Kill Your Web 2.0 Company: Zoto

  by laktek on 2/16/2009, 11:49 PM with 2 comments

• Rails Podcast with Ryan Tomayko

  by laktek on 2/16/2009, 11:37 PM with 0 comments

• Experiences Of A Newbie iPhone Developer

  by laktek on 2/15/2009, 11:31 PM with 4 comments

• Acts_as_conference 2009 talks are online

  by laktek on 2/15/2009, 12:43 AM with 0 comments

• Rails Maturity Model...Let's boil it down

  by laktek on 2/13/2009, 11:34 PM with 3 comments

• Check domain availability without leaving your shell...

  by laktek on 2/13/2009, 3:09 PM with 0 comments

• My best 7 free JS model boxes

  by laktek on 1/29/2009, 6:10 AM with -1 comments

• Listening to Your Specs

  by laktek on 12/10/2008, 4:48 AM with 0 comments

• Ruby Advent Calendar 2008

  by laktek on 12/1/2008, 1:33 AM with 0 comments

• I want to be a Ruby Hacker...

  by laktek on 11/21/2008, 11:33 AM with 2 comments

• If Rails is a Ghetto, Merb is a Whorehouse

  by laktek on 11/20/2008, 7:20 AM with 0 comments

• Really Simple Color Picker in jQuery

  by laktek on 10/27/2008, 11:10 AM with 0 comments

• Ask YC: Any startup outside US using Amazon FPS?

  by laktek on 10/23/2008, 4:58 AM with 0 comments

• Ask YC: How to perform a Scheduled Maintenance?

  by laktek on 10/22/2008, 1:56 AM with 5 comments

• Simple command line todo list manager

  by laktek on 9/3/2008, 1:03 AM with 0 comments

• How do you track your competitors?

  by laktek on 8/9/2008, 4:34 PM with 5 comments

• CurdBee Billing, now supports Multiple Currencies (and still free)

  by laktek on 7/30/2008, 5:29 PM with 0 comments

• CurdBee - simple billing solution for freelancers

  by laktek on 6/18/2008, 2:09 AM with 7 comments

• Ask YC: Do anyone know a simple bash script to get the last modified file in a directory ?

  by laktek on 5/17/2008, 12:46 PM with 1 comments

• Free at Last (How/Why to empower your business with free sw)

  by laktek on 4/8/2008, 4:41 AM with 0 comments

• Why your site sucks ?

  by laktek on 4/7/2008, 11:54 PM with 1 comments

• Any Suggesstion for simple, unobstructive java script color picker?

  by laktek on 4/7/2008, 2:13 AM with 3 comments

• Absolute Moron's Guide to Forms in Rails

  by laktek on 4/6/2008, 8:53 PM with 0 comments

• Browser based easy font creation tool from Fontshop

  by laktek on 4/6/2008, 10:59 AM with 0 comments

• Picasso’s Top 7 Tips for Creating an Exciting Life

  by laktek on 4/6/2008, 8:27 AM with 7 comments

• Watch Ezra's Presentation on Merb

  by laktek on 3/30/2008, 3:26 AM with 0 comments