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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All posts (183)
New feed options for this websiteAs of today, I have added several feed options to this website. Using Astro's built-in content collections, not only does this blog (which I call Notebook) have an RSS feed, I've also got my design work, gigs, and my desk setup updates on their very own. Within the Notebook itself, I...
Promotional still from The Odyssey (2026), Universal My thoughts on Christopher Nolan's blockbuster adaptation of the Greek epicThis review contains spoilers. In O Brother, Where Art Thou? Ulysses Everett McGill lies to his companions and tricks them into fleeing a chain gang with him. Through numerous ordeals...
Today at HWC Europe I shared my screen and showed everyone some snippets of this website. I particularly focused on my style page, the gigs layout and the posters layout. Even though the website is staged on a public URL and the source code is available on a public GitHub repo, I don't imagine anybody would have...
It's time for a new chapterThis is my last post on my WordPress website. There is no point in tarrying. I must set a target for myself and get this over the line. With my Astro website rewrite steadily progressing, I see no reason to hang about here. I will make the switch on Saturday, 1 August. That should give me...
I asked my wife this morning to have a look at my Astro site and to give me some feedback. She said it was easy enough to navigate and that she liked the light mode colours. She didn't understand the purpose of the /Style page, but concurred she wouldn't be in the audience of people who would find that sort of thing...
Adventures in janky CSSI’ve been making steady progress with the new website except in one area. I’m writing lots of HTML and CSS almost every day, but not knowing any JavaScript has become an issue. Key elements like injecting a blog, making content collections, and making interactive menus require JS knowledge....
I've always wanted to add a section to the blog for short status-type posts. I didn't get around to experimenting with this on WordPress, but I have now built this in Astro. I'm calling this section of the blog "Stream", and each of these short posts a "Streamlet". I now need to find a way to make it as easy as...
Photo courtesy of Film Heritage Foundation A gem of Sri Lankan cinema comes to BelfastBack in November 2025 when we went home to Sri Lanka for a few weeks, we had the pleasure of seeing a restored version of Gehenu Lamai (The Girls), Sumitra Peries’ acclaimed 1978 film, in the cinema. The film had been restored by...
That's it, I'm a runner now!I’ve been on a bit of a running (and writing) hiatus. Before heading to Wales at the end of June, I had naively imagined I would run and write through the holiday, but neither happened. My last post that I wrote while waiting for Def Leppard hinted at the desire to do them but the reality...
I like to get very close to the stage so I can examine all the gear Another pre-gig dispatchI find myself in the middle of a crowd again. Standing. Waiting. I’m outdoors this time. The space is much bigger. The crowd is much bigger. It’s quite warm in Belfast tonight; we’ve just survived a heatwave. But that hasn’t...
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