
Principal Software Engineer @Westpac Australia and a dad
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined December 2014
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I strongly believe that all managers in a technical area must be technically excellent.
Managers in software must write great software or it’s like being a cavalry captain who can’t ride a horse!
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Love this.. my kinda politician.
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Cat caught 'smuggling' heroin in Sri Lanka 🇱🇰🐈 newswire.lk/2020/08/01/heroi…
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#Karnataka
At a private college in Haveri , college management made students to wear corrugated box to stop them from copying during exams. DDPI has issued notice to the college @NewIndianXpress @Amitsen_TNIE @nimmasuresh
Samitha Fernando retweeted
Facebook scans system libraries from their Android app user’s phone in the background and uploads them to their server
This is called "Global Library Collector" at Facebook, known as "GLC" in app’s code
It periodically uploads metadata of system libraries to the server
Samitha Fernando retweeted
When you finally decide to implement the stricter network access controls and firewall rules !
Samitha Fernando retweeted
So to close out the day, here’s a nice demo of both
@getcapacitor
@angular (v9 with ivy)
@Ionicframework (local build)
One word.
F A S T.
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Me working with someone else’s legacy code nitter.gq/YTSunnys/status/115087… – at Twyford, England
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Good reporting on @business about the clusterfuck by Sri Lanka govt in not acting on intelligence about radical islamist terrorists:
Sri Lanka Muslims Had Warned Officials About Group Behind Attack
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Explosions have been reported at two churches in Sri Lanka as Christians celebrate Easter bbc.in/2ZoBVqD
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using a monorepo solves many code management problems, and in turn it does introduce some of its own.
but ime, the problems caused by a monorepo can be tackled by a single centralized team, whereas the downsides of many repos end up slowing everyone on a team down slightly
Samitha Fernando retweeted
In Chrome, any JavaScript files in a service worker cache are bytecode-cached automatically.
This means there is 0 parse + compile cost for them on repeat visits. 🤯
v8.dev/blog/code-caching-for…
Samitha Fernando retweeted
lol. Facebook stored hundreds of millions of passwords in plain text theverge.com/2019/3/21/18275…
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Ex Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa accepts it's wrong to conduct a Sri Lankan Airline board meeting in his residence, after JVP MP Sunil Handunnetthi revealed that SriLankan board meeting was once held in Speaker's residence in 2013. "I was not aware, my son was a board member" said CR
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BBC good food @bbcgoodfood rates Sri Lankan cuisine #1 for 2019:
bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/…
Opportunity to start a new line of exports!
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Remember, always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where yo-
*knock knock*
Shit.
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JUST IN: Nine has obtained exclusive vision of the moment a freeway sign came loose in Melbourne, crushing a passing car and injuring the woman behind the wheel. @LanaMurphy #9News
#9News
#9News - 9 News, nightly at 6.00pm.
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Replying to @timarney
@philwalton covered part of this in his deloying ES2015+ code write-up philipwalton.com/articles/de… @malchata wrote about it in calendar.perfplanet.com/2018…
Samitha Fernando retweeted
I am deprecated. The github.com/paypal/glamorous repository is now archived. It was awesome. Time to move on to emotion.sh 👩🎤
Thanks everyone ❤️👋









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