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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Eclipse, HWC, domains, and some random thoughtsI don't normally do weeknotes. I have attempted to do similar things in the past but they never stuck. Writing out a list of things that happened during the week, in great or little detail, simply doesn't interest me. I would gladly read weeknotes from bloggers I...
A helpful community for people who write on the webA few months ago, James kindly invited me to join a Signal group for a community he was forming that included writers and bloggers on the web. He had been thinking about this for a while, and he felt a closed group chat was as good a place to start as any. He had...
Moments of self-reflection on the moveWhen you run, Londoners do not move out of the way and let you pass like people in Belfast do. You have to find your way through them, a little forcefully sometimes. When I run, my mind wanders. I couldn't let that happen when I ran in St. James's Park yesterday. It was far too...
A weekend awayWe arrived in London yesterday morning. The primary reason for the visit was to see The Odyssey at the BFI IMAX, the largest screen in the UK, and one of the few places in the world where you can see a film projected in 70mm IMAX. We had seen James Gunn's Superman in this cinema, projected digitally,...
Celebrating the culture, music, and dance of IrelandBelfast is abuzz this week with Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann, a grand celebration of Irish culture and music that takes place every summer. This is the first time Belfast is hosting the event. With more than 700,000 visitors from around the world expected to attend...
Can I take credit for something I prompted an LLM to make?I have used Lovable (a Claude wrapper) in the past to make some tools for personal use. My physical media vault, financial data visualiser, and a few other apps hosted on a personal subdomain were made with it. "Vibe-coding" is the term that generally...
Knowledge is freeOver the past few months, the Lisburn Road Library has become a place that we frequent. On Saturday mornings, if I’m not working, we go there to read. It’s conveniently located just 2 minutes away from where we live. It is a small library, but one of many. The entire library network in Northern...
Is The Bad Take back? And some reflections on leaving an online footprintAbout 3 people in the world would have noticed that there is a new episode of The Bad Take podcast. On Saturday, Himal and I recorded a conversation about Christopher Nolan's new film The Odyssey. I edited it over the weekend and published it...
The next step in my running journeyAfter finishing the Couch to 5k programme a few weeks ago, I immediately subscribed to the paid version of Runna and signed up with a personalised running plan. The plan is designed to improve both my speed and distance. At the end of 12 weeks, all being well, I will be able to run...
Marking up my content collectionsMaking my website IndieWeb friendly has always been the goal. With WordPress, I could simply install a plugin to inject microformat properties such as h-feed to the site, but building everything from scratch in Astro meant I had to do this manually. I spent some time writing the...
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