Thamara Kandabada
Thamara Kandabada
I’m Thamara, furniture-peddler by day and wearer-of-many-hats by night. I like to watch films, enjoy live music, tinker with this website, play guitar, and run in my free time. I'm currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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New companion for writingI have discovered yet another writing app. This one lets me connect my Astro project's content collections, pulls the defined schema from my content.config.ts file, and lets me write Markdown in a distraction free environment. It's not a note-taking app that I can use on the go for...
On taking comfort in communal musical experiencesThis post is one in a series of my entries for the September 2026 Bear Blog Carnival themed Music Memories. Almost to the day four years ago, having packed our life into a few bags and moved across continents, we landed in a new country. We didn't know anyone in...
Saved you a clickAfter a lot of effort I've managed to get full content RSS feeds implemented across this website. The feed for this blog (the one you're reading right now), my gigs, design updates, and desk updates now contain the full content for each post by default, without having to set your feed reader to...
Everyone is making apps with LLMs. Should they?The other day, in a business setting, I was listening to someone talking about an app they had vibe-coded. I have to leave out names and any other identifying details, but this person was claiming to have made a tool that was orders of magnitude better than anything...
Getting back to running after a short breakI ran 3.5 miles today after a short break. My last run was more than a week ago: on Sunday, 30 August. I had run 6.29 miles (just over 10K) that day; my longest run ever. It was raining, and I had been sick for a day or two—a very annoying cold, with violent coughing fits....
Giving up coffee for a month(?)Starting the day before yesterday, for no particular reason at all, I have decided to do a coffee detox. For a month. I don't know if I will last that long, but that is the plan. Yes, I'm doing okay; this is just a silly idea that had been implanted in my brain some time ago. Now I...
A recap of sortsFor the uninitiated, Blaugust is a blogging challenge, started by Belghast in 2014, where participants post 31 times during the month of August. A post for every day of the month. I took part this year and completed the challenge successfully. No slumps, no misses, no scrounging around for ideas—I...
And telling the world about itThe topic of evolving opinions has been on my mind lately. I think a chat with a friend first sparked it. I am not the same person who started this blog 12 years ago writing about international political affairs. I've changed my mind about many things since then, many times over. As...
Thundermail is finally here! Got the invite to join today, so I did and moved my personal email from Hostinger to Thundermail. Now if we could get Thunderbird for iOS released right away, please, Mozilla. Spark has been great generally but the recent AI-bloat is just too much.
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